Chris and Alex return once more to the pioneering work of stop-motion animator and effects artist Ray Harryhausen, this time looking at his 1973 fantasy film collaboration with director Gordon Hessler, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. For Episode 80, the focus is on the quasi-parasitic relationship between live-action and animation filmmaking, and the spectatorial fantasy engendered and invited by each form of moving image technology. Topics include psychoanalytic film theory and the ‘internal object’; the ontological integration of Harryhausen’s ‘Dynarama’ effects with the fantasy of location shooting; animation discourse and the problem of essentialist understandings of medium specificity; The Golden Voyage of Sinbad’s orientalist imaginary and problematic constructions of race; the materiality of stop-motion, and the ‘weighty’ qualities to the film’s army of mythical homunculi; and the big-screen trend of casting ‘animators’ as villains in their control and manipulation of suddenly sentient fictional worlds.
Arthur Christmas (2011)
Footnote #39 - Special Effects
Disney: A Tale of Technology and Innovation (Live at the British Film Institute) (with Chris McKenna)
Footnote #38 - Storybook Openings
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) (with Taylor Driggers)
Footnote #37 - Silent Cinema (with Lawrence Napper)
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) (with Lawrence Napper)
Footnote #36 - Horror Cinema (with Stacey Abbott)
ParaNorman (2012) (with Stacey Abbott)
Footnote #35 - Twice Told Tales
Cats (2019)
Fantasy/Animation - Announcement
Footnote #34 - Science Fiction (with Mark Bould)
Free Guy (2021) (with Mark Bould)
Footnote #33 - Can Colour Blind People Work in VFX? (with Chris McKenna)
Dumbo (2019) (with Chris McKenna)
Footnote #32 - 3D (with Nick Jones)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) (with Nick Jones)
Footnote #31 - Claymation
Monster House (2006) (with Jane Batkin)
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