CULTURE — all episodes — Fantasy/Animation

Episode 81 - Sub-Saharan African Animation (1966-2013) (with Paula Callus)

Episode 81 of the podcast provides an introductory survey of Sub-Saharan African animation, as Chris and Alex plot a pathway through a cross-section of animated fantasies covering a multitude of forms, styles and modes from a number of African countries and territories. Joining them is Dr Paula Callus, Associate Professor in Computer Animation at Bournemouth University and an expert in Sub-Saharan African animation, who has also worked as a consultant and educator on the UNESCO Africa Animated projects in Kenya and South Africa, and who has been involved in projects looking at marginalization and the use of digital technologies (with a focus upon Arts, Activism and Marginalization in Nairobi).

PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantAugust 30, 2021FILM STYLE, CARTOON, CHILDREN, NATIONAL, IMAGINATION, AFRICAN, FANTASY, CULTURE Comments

Episode 70 - Space Jam (Joe Pytka, 1996) (with Paul Wells)

Chris and Alex take to the basketball court for a sports-themed instalment of the podcast by looking at Space Jam (Joe Pytka, 1996), the part-animated, part-Michael Jordan sports comedy that has lots to say about the spectacle of stylistic hybridity, animation’s longstanding relationship to sport, and nostalgia via its many callbacks to Golden Age Hollywood cartooning all through the lens of NBA basketball. Joining them for Episode 70 is Professor Paul Wells, who is Director of the Animation Academy at Loughborough University, as well as being an internationally established scholar, screenwriter and director, working across and within both academia and industry contexts.

PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantMarch 29, 2021AMERICA, HYBRIDITY, BIOGRAPHY, SPORT, CULTURE, REPRESENTATION, RACEComment