Archive Episode - Wizards (Ralph Bakshi, 1977) (Live @ Cinema Museum)
Wizards (Ralph Bakshi, 1977).
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Chris and Alex go all the way back to 2020 for the penultimate archive episode of the podcast for this summer, remembering their discussion of Ralph Bakshi’s high fantasy animated epic Wizards (Ralph Bakshi, 1977), which was originally recorded in front of a live audience at the Cinema Museum in Kennington, London in January 2020. Released first time around as Episode 42, the conversation turned to Wizards as a counter-cultural marvel of the 1970s; the politics and propaganda of the film’s adult themes, including its discourses of socio-realism and gender politics; technology versus magic; and the status of Wizards as a masterpiece of U.S. animation.
**Fantasy/Animation theme tune composed by Francisca Araujo**
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Suggested Readings
Eisenstein, Sergei. 1986. Eisenstein on Disney. Trans. Jay Leyda, London: Methuen.
Sergeant, Alexander. 2018. ““The Iconoclast of animation”: Counter-culturalism in Ralph Bakshi’s Fantasy Films.” In Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres eds. Christopher Holliday and Alexander Sergeant, 141–157. London and New York: Routledge.