Fantasy/Animation

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

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Christopher Holliday teaches Film Studies and Liberal Arts at King's College London, UK.

Alexander Sergeant is a Lecturer at Bournemouth University, UK.

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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)

5. The Reality of Fantasy: VFX as Fantasmatic Supplement in Game of Thrones (2011-)

(Ben Tyrer) Part II: Authors and Nations

6. Contextualizing Lotte Reiniger's Fantasy Fairy Tales

(Caroline Ruddell)

7. 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)