Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres

ISBN-13: 9781138054370 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 310 str.

Christopher Holliday; Alexander Sergeant

Opis

This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation.

Spis treści

Introduction: Approaching Fantasy/Animation (Christopher Holliday and Alexander Sergeant) Part I: Ontology and Spectatorship 1. Wonderlands, Slumberlands, and Plunderlands: Considering the Animated Fantasy (Paul Wells) 2. Pierre Mac Orlan’s "Social Fantastic" and Disney Animation (Barnaby Dicker) 3. In The Face Of...Animated Fantasy Characters: On The Role of Baby Schemata in the Elicitation of Empathic Reactions (Meike Uhrig) 4. Fantastical Empathy: Encountering Abstraction in Bret Battey’s Sinus Aestum (2009) (Lilly Husbands) . The Reality of Fantasy: VFX as Fantasmatic Supplement in Game of Thrones (2011-) (Ben Tyrer) Part II: Authors and Nations . Contextualizing Lotte Reiniger’s Fantasy Fairy Tales (Caroline Ruddell) . Fantastic French Fox: The National Identity of Le Roman de Renard (1941) as an Animated Film (Francis M. Agnoli) 8.The "Iconoclast of Animation": Counter-Culturalism in Ralph Bakshi’s Fantasy Films (Alexander Sergeant)9. Animating Japan: the Fantasy Films of Studio Ghibli (Susan J. Napier) 10. British Social Realism as Wonderland Fantasy in Electricity (2014) (Carolyn Rickards) Part III: Culture and Industry 11. "Loved the animation, hated the CGI": How Audiences Responded to Digital Effects in The Hobbit films (2012-2014) (Martin Barker) 12. From Buzz to Business: Hollywood, Fantasy, and the Computer-Animated Film Industry (Christopher Holliday)13. High Fantasy Meets Low Culture in How to Train Your Dragon (2010) (Sam Summers) 14. The Evolution of Reproductive Fantasies: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Analysis of Disney’s Tangled (2010) (Samantha Langsdale and Sarah Myers) 15. "Enter the World": James Cameron's Avatar (2009) and the Family-Adventure Movie (Peter Krämer)