[ecrea] New book - Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres

We are very pleased to announce the publication of /Fantasy/Animation: 
Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres/ (Routledge, 2018), edited 
by Christopher Holliday and Alexander Sergeant 
(https://www.fantasy-animation.org/).



The book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema 
and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining 
our collective expectations and experiences of fantasy cinema, just as 
fantasy storytelling has often served as inspiration for our most 
popular animated film and television. Bringing together contributions 
from world-renowned film and media scholars, Fantasy/Animation considers 
the various historical, theoretical, and cultural ramifications of the 
animated fantasy film. This collection provides a range of chapters on 
subjects including Disney, Pixar, and Studio Ghibli, filmmakers such as 
Ralph Bakshi and James Cameron, and on film and television franchises 
such as Dreamworks’ /How To Train Your Dragon/ (2010–) and HBO’s /Game 
of Thrones/ (2011–).

*Introduction*: Approaching Fantasy/Animation (Christopher Holliday and 
Alexander Sergeant)

*Part I: Ontology and Spectatorship*

1. Wonderlands, Slumberlands, and Plunderlands: Considering the Animated 
Fantasy (Paul Wells)

2. Pierre Mac Orlan’s "Social Fantastic" and Disney Animation (Barnaby 
Dicker)

3. In The Face Of…Animated Fantasy Characters: On The Role of Baby 
Schemata in the Elicitation of Empathic Reactions (Meike Uhrig)

4. Fantastical Empathy: Encountering Abstraction in Bret Battey’s /Sinus 
Aestum /(2009) (Lilly Husbands)

5. The Reality of Fantasy: VFX as Fantasmatic Supplement in /Game of 
Thrones /(2011-) (Ben Tyrer)

*Part II: Authors and Nations*

6. Contextualizing Lotte Reiniger’s Fantasy Fairy Tales (Caroline Ruddell)

7. Fantastic French Fox: The National Identity of/ Le Roman de 
Renard/ (1941) as an Animated Film (Francis M. Agnoli)

8. The "Iconoclast of Animation": Counter-Culturalism in Ralph Bakshi’s 
Fantasy Films (Alexander Sergeant)

9. Animating Japan: the Fantasy Films of Studio Ghibli (Susan J. Napier)

10. British Social Realism as Wonderland Fantasy in /Electricity 
/(2014) (Carolyn Rickards)

*Part III: Culture and Industry*

11. "Loved the animation, hated the CGI": How Audiences Responded to 
Digital Effects in /The Hobbit/ films (2012-2014) (Martin Barker)

12. From Buzz to Business: Hollywood, Fantasy, and the Computer-Animated 
Film Industry (Christopher Holliday)

13. High Fantasy Meets Low Culture in /How to Train Your 
Dragon/ (2010) (Sam Summers)

14. The Evolution of Reproductive Fantasies: An Interdisciplinary 
Feminist Analysis of Disney’s /Tangled /(2010) (Samantha Langsdale and 
Sarah Myers)

15. "Enter the World": James Cameron's /Avatar /(2009) and the 
Family-Adventure Movie (Peter Krämer)


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