Christopher Holliday

Christopher’s research is largely concerned with digital media technologies and forms of computer animation in contemporary visual culture. He is specifically interested in Hollywood cinema’s multiple encounters with digital elements and effects. Christopher’s first monograph The Computer-Animated Film: Industry, Style and Genre (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) was the first academic work to examine the computer-animated feature film as a global phenomenon of popular cinema. It was shortlisted for the international Society for Animation Studies 2019 McLaren-Lambart Award for the Best Scholarly Book on Animation. In 2018, Christopher co-edited the collection Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres for Routledge’s AFI Film Readers series, which considers the various historical, theoretical and cultural dimensions of the animated fantasy. The book was awarded the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Runner-Up prize for Best Edited Collection in 2019. His most recent book was the edited collection Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: New Perspectives on Production, Reception, Legacy (2021) published as part of Bloomsbury’s Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers series. The anthology explores the enduring qualities that have marked Snow White’s influence and legacy, as well as the film’s central place within the history of global animation.