Fantasy/Animation : Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres
- Submitting institution
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University of Portsmouth
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 15850153
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138054370
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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D - Media, Culture and Communication
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres comprises a co-authored introduction to the edited collection (Sergeant and Holliday), a single authored chapter entitled ‘The Iconoclast of Animation: Counter-Culturalism in Ralph Bakshi’s Fantasy Films’ (Sergeant). Co-edited by Alex Sergeant and Christopher Holliday, the book contains 15 chapters each written by an expert in the field. It comprises 3 parts: Part I: Ontology and Spectatorship; Part II: Authors and Nations; Part III: Culture and Industry.
Fantasy/Animation is the first academic book to examine critically the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation scholarship is often committed to outlining the medium’s “invariably fantastic aspect” (Telotte 2010: 15), its status as a “fantastic medium” (Crafton 2013: 16) and the “fantasy aspect of animation” (Gunning 2013: 55). Likewise, fantasy scholarship has also often referred to the requirement of fantasy filmmakers to draw upon animation as a technology capable of rendering onscreen the metamorphic and transformative narratives of fantasy fiction. (Butler 2009; Furby and Hines 2011). However, in each field of research, the terms ‘fantasy’ and ‘animation’ are habitually placed in a power structure in which one must serve the other, an approach that we argue impedes rather than serves the study of animated fantasy media.
Fantasy/Animation proposes an alternative approach, arguing that the fantasy and animation relationship is not an ‘and’ or ‘or’, but a dialectic of ‘fantasy/animation.’ We identify the “slash” that appears between fantasy and animation in the collection’s
title not as a fixed or immobile divide, but a fluid channel through which fantasy and animation are permitted to intersect, collide and intermingle. Fantasy/Animation considers the various historical, theoretical and cultural dimensions of the animated fantasy, and provides a series of case study chapters from scholars working across film, media and cultural studies.
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- Non-English
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