Fantasy/animation : connections between media, mediums and genres

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Examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation, and considers the various historical, theoretical, and cultural ramifications of the animated fantasy film.

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Wonderlands, slumberlands and plunderlands: considering the animated fantasy / Paul Wells ; Pierre Mac Orlan's "social fantastic" and Disney animation / Barnaby Dicker ; In the face of...animated fantasy characters: on the role of baby schemata in the elicitation of empathic reactions / Meike Uhrig ; Fantastical empathy: encountering abstraction in Bret Battey's Sinus aestum (2009) / Lilly Husbands ; The reality of fantasy: VFX as fantasmatic supplement in Game of thrones (2011- ) / Ben Tyrer) ; Authors and nations (Contextualizing Lotte Reiniger's fantasy fairy tales / Caroline Ruddell ; Fantastic French fox: the national identity of Le roman de renard (1941) as an animated film / Francis M. Agnoli ; The "iconoclast of animation": counter-culturalism in Ralph Bakshi's fantasy films / Alexander Sergeant ; Animating Japan: the fantasy films of Studio Ghibli / Susan J. Napier ; British social realism as wonderland fantasy in Electricity (2014) / Carolyn Rickards) ; Culture and industry ("Loved the animation, hated the CGI": how audiences responded to digital effects in The hobbit films (2012-2014) / Martin Barker ; From buzz to business: Hollywood, fantasy and the computer-animated film industry / Christopher Holliday ; High fantasy meets low culture in How to train your dragon (2010) / Sam Summers ; The evolution of reproductive fantasies: an interdisciplinary feminist analysis of Disney's Tangled (2010) / Samantha Langsdale and Sarah Myers ; "Enter the world": James Cameron's Avatar (2009) and the family-adventure movie / Peter Krämer