Dear List Members,


It is our pleasure to present the highlights from this month's activity on fantasy-animation.org.


Fantasy-Animation.org is a website curated by Dr. Alexander Sergeant (Bournemouth University) and Dr. Christopher Holliday (King's College London) that explores the relationship between the fantasy genre and the medium of animation. Through its weekly blog and fortnightly podcasts, the website provides a space for discussion and debate amongst like-minded academics, animation practitioners, critics and fans of fantasy and/or animation. 


This March, we featured:

- Editorials from Jingan Young (King's College London) on "Soho: An Imagined Space of Fantasy?" and Kodi Maier (University of Hull) on "Notes from an Angry Queer: Compulsive Heteronormativity in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World"

- Rayna Denison (University of East Anglia) reviewing Captain Marvel and Lilly Husbands (Middlesex University) reviewing the Expanded & Experimental Animation Conference held at UCA Farnham.

- Christopher Holliday​ & Alexander Sergeant reviewing the Emerald City Comic-Con held in Seattle, USA

- Podcasts on Tron (Steven Lisberger, 1982) and Coco (Lee Unkrich, 2017), featuring guests Jose Arroyo and Michael Glass from Eavesdropping at the Movies

- A two-part podcast covering this year's SCMS conference (featuring interviews with Kirsten Moana Thompson, Susan Ohmer, Murray Leeder, Eric Smoodin, Leon Gurevitch - and many more!).


We welcome suggestions for future ideas for blog posts, which can take the form of editorials, film/tv reviews, book reviews, event reviews or 2-3 min sequence analyses (for more information of the various formats we publish, visit the 'How to Contribute' tab on the website). Blog posts can be written or filmed, and may address a range of different topics from the vast history of fantasy/animation. We are currently particularly interested in receiving ideas on the following (but will consider any blog ideas you might have!):


-  Reflections on current creative practice 

-  Reviews of upcoming releases (theatrical, broadcast, streaming, DVD), including Avengers: Endgame, Aladdin, Godzilla: King of Monsters, X-Men: Dark Phoenix

- The role of costume/production design within examples of fantasy/animation

- Acting & performance in fantasy/animation

- Considerations of stop-motion animation

- Video and audio blog submissions.

- Posts from PhD students/Early Career Researchers


 If you are interested, get in touch if interested via fantasy-animation.org (under the 'Who We Are' / 'Contact Info' tabs).


All best wishes,​


Dr. Alexander Sergeant 
Lecturer in Film and Media Theory / Assistant Director of the Centre for Film & TV Research 
Faculty of Media and Communication
Bournemouth University

Fantasy-Animation.org




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