In episode 15, Chris and Alex log on to Tron (Steven Lisberger, 1982), a watershed moment in the history of computer animation and one that taps into the early electronic spectacle of digital visual effects within a Hollywood context. Representing the wonder of - if not the cultural anxieties surrounding - the newness of computers and virtual reality (as well as the growing popularity of videogames), the film reframes cyberspace as a complex three-dimensional fantasy world. Tron invites spectators into the labyrinthine geographies of hardware and software, asking us to marvel at a series of magical mainframes but also to speculate over what digital technology might look like, and how it could be represented onscreen.
Archive Episode - My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Archive Episode - Ex Machina (2014) (with Andrew Whitehurst)
Archive Episode - The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) (with Caroline Ruddell - Live @ Cinema Museum)
Archive Episode - Treasure Planet (2002) (with Ron Clements and John Musker)
Archive Episode - Aladdin (1992) (with Steve Henderson)
Archive Episode - Peppa Pig (2004-) (with Richard Dyer)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Footnote #50 - Postfeminism (with Eve Benhamou)
Frozen (2013) (with Eve Benhamou)
Footnote #49 - Cyborgs
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) (with Yvonne Tasker)
Footnote #48 - Visual Effects
Dungeons & Dragons - The Fantasy Adventure Board Game (with Cat Mahoney)
Footnote #47 - Aura
Toy Story (1995) (with Lucy Fife Donaldson)
Footnote #46 - Multiplanarity
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) (with Sarah Thomas)
Footnote #45 - The Disney Renaissance (with Peter Kunze)
Beauty and the Beast (1991) (with Peter Kunze)
Footnote #44 - Hanna-Barbera (with Jared Bahir Browsh)
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