STYLE — footnote episodes — Fantasy/Animation

Footnote #38 tackles the recurrent motif of the storybook that so often begins Disney’s animated features, but which also takes other forms and styles as part of the studio’s sustained dramatisation of storytelling.

FOOTNOTE PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantNovember 27, 2023WALT DISNEY, NARRATIVE, STORYTELLING, STYLE, HOLLYWOODComment

Footnote #12 - The Lightning Sketch (with Malcolm Cook)

Joining Chris and Alex for this lightning quick journey through the origins and aesthetics of the lightning sketch tradition in Footnote #12 of the podcast is Dr Malcolm Cook, Associate Professor in Film Studies (University of Southampton), author of Early British Animation: From Page and Stage to Cinema Screens (2018) and co-editor (with Professor Kirsten Moana Thompson) of the collection Animation and Advertising (2019).

FOOTNOTE PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantAugust 1, 2022ANIMATION, HISTORY, AESTHETICS, STYLE, THEATRE, LABOURComment

Footnote #10 - Hybridity

The mixed media potential of animation is the subject of Footnote #10, which takes on hybridity via the combination of multiple animated styles, as well as the spectatorial effects that such blended images might conjure.

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 #2 - Animation

The first Fantasy/Animation Footnote Episode proper launches with this short discussion on the origins and genealogies of animation, from cave paintings and Victorian children’s toys to the lightning sketch tradition and the comic books.