Episode eight sees Chris and Alex discuss the eighteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Panther (Ryan Coogler, 2018). As the first Marvel film to feature a predominantly black cast, Black Panther offers the opportunity to situate fantasy and animation both within the codes of the popular superhero genre, and alongside broader critical questions of black subjectivity in contemporary cinema. Chris and Alex therefore move through an examination of its spectacular use of digital animation in its portrayal of Third World-but-secretly-techno-heavy Wakanda; the fruitful overlap between science-fiction and fantasy cinema as categories of classification; and post-Trump Afrofuturist identity politics. Oh, and they talk a bit about CGI rhinos too.
Arrival (2016) (with William Brown)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988) (with Alex Dudok de Wit)
Dark (2017-2020) (with Nicolas Leu)
Space Jam (1996) (with Paul Wells)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) (with Helen O'Hara)
The Prince of Egypt (1998) (with Francesca Stavrakopoulou)
Flushed Away (2006)
Happy Feet (2006) (with Hannah Hamad)
Inception (2010) (with Todd McGowan)
Captain Marvel (2019) (with Trixter VFX Studio)
Animated Christmas Adverts (1951-2018) (with Malcolm Cook)
James Bond Title Sequences (1962-2015) (with Ed Lamberti) (Part 2)
James Bond Title Sequences (1962-2015) (with Ed Lamberti) (Part 1)
Christopher Robin (2018)
Sherlock Jr. (1924) (with Peter Adamson)
Roobarb (and Custard) (1974) (with Birgitta Hosea)
Rango (2011) (with Neil Brand)
Bright (David Ayer, 2017)
Hugo (2011) (with Eric Smoodin)
Watchmen (2009) (with Drew Morton)
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