CHARACTER — footnote episodes

Posts tagged CHARACTER

Chris and Alex take a look at animation’s historical and troubling relationship to race with this examination of the Censored Eleven, a collection of controversial Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons produced during the 1930s and 1940s removed from syndication since 1968 for their inclusion of harmful and offensive racist stereotypes.

FOOTNOTE PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantApril 28, 2025RACE, CHARACTER, HOLLYWOOD, IDENTITY, REPRESENTATIONComment

Footnote #8 - Plasmaticness

Footnote #8 offers a brief detour to the abridged and incomplete animated writings of Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein from the 1940s, and in particular his notorious concept of “plasmaticness” that he argued was a way of understanding the appeal and attraction of Walt Disney’s cartoon images

FOOTNOTE PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantJune 6, 2022PLASMATICNESS, WALT DISNEY, CEL ANIMATION, STYLE, CHARACTER, POLITICS, TECHNOLOGYComment