Footnote #27 - Surrealism
The Fantasy/Animation podcast takes listeners on a journey through the intersection between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Available via Apple Podcasts, Spotify and many of your favourite podcast hosting platforms!
Following up episodes on hyper-realism and photorealism, this latest instalment completes the unofficial Fantasy/Animation ‘realism’ trilogy (!) by focusing on the history, politics, and aesthetic concerns of surrealism. Chris and Alex take a surrealist turn through the crisis of realism in the arts and the advent of photography; dream interpretation, psychoanalysis, and unconscious desires; postwar intellectualism, Salvador Dalí, and Dadaism; and how both fantasy and animation work in relation to surrealism’s political puncturing of the status quo, its claims to protest, and its affective assault on the senses.
**Fantasy/Animation theme tune composed by Francisca Araujo**
Suggested Readings
Aron, Robert. 1988. “Films of Revolt” [1924]. In French Film Theory and Criticism, edited by Richard Abel, 432-436. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Breton, André. 1971 “First Surrealist Manifesto” [1924]. In Surrealism, edited by Patrick Waldberg, 66-72. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Goudal, Jean. 1988. “Surrealism and the Cinema” [1925]. In French Film Theory and Criticism, edited by Richard Abel, 353-362. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Hames, Peter (ed.) 1995. Dark Alchemy: The Films of Jan Švankmajer, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
Pallant, Chris. 2011. Demystifying Disney: A History of Disney Feature Animation. London: Continuum.