Sam Summers
@drsamsummers.bsky.social
Lecturer in Animation at Middlesex Uni. Co-host of the Disniversity podcast. PhD in Shrek Studies.
A very fun chat!
1999: The Podcast@1999thepodcast.bsky.social · 2d agoThis one has been a long time coming! @drsamsummers.bsky.social from @disniversity.bsky.social joins @johnbrooks.bsky.social and @juliasirmons.bsky.social to to talk about Brad Bird's stone cold classic, THE IRON GIANT! Here or wherever you get podcasts.
Summer is OUT, pumpkin spice lattes are IN Spooky season approaches and we’re doing a Nightmare Before Christmas live ep next week! Get 20% off this Bank Holiday weekend with code: PODFEST20
Disniversity Podcast@disniversity.bsky.social · 4w agoIt’s nearly time for our Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas LIVE SHOW at the London Podcast Festival! 🎃 Join Ben and Sam for a spooky Disney classic – talking stop-motion, classic songs, and more – on Sat 5 Sept, 4.30pm, Kings Place. Tickets left here 🎟️ www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/pod...
Really excited for this. Get your tickets now - spooky season starts in September!
Disniversity Podcast@disniversity.bsky.social · 4w agoIt’s nearly time for our Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas LIVE SHOW at the London Podcast Festival! 🎃 Join Ben and Sam for a spooky Disney classic – talking stop-motion, classic songs, and more – on Sat 5 Sept, 4.30pm, Kings Place. Tickets left here 🎟️ www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/pod...
Academic friends, you might want to get in on this
Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · last yr.Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
Wild boys!
Ben Travis@benstravis.bsky.social · 2y agoDisniversity listeners! Our sort-of-bonus episode on the cursed oddity that is 2006's The Wild is OUT NOW – a Disney film that simultaneously isn't a Disney movie. @drsamsummers.bsky.social and I are joined by pal-of-pod Jon Hornbuckle for this one. Enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...
The perfect Issue 1 of a comic book
Kieron Gillen@kierongillen.bsky.social · 2y agoAnd Image Comics has just released the first issue of The Power Fantasy on their site, for free. Read the comic people are calling "The Power Fantasy" (normally while showering it with praise). First trade available now. imagecomics.com/read/the-pow...
Got a big box of bobbins delivered today, had to share my haul. Thoughts/opinions/memories of any of these classics?
Really tickled by this extremely subtle edit to the Walt Disney Animation Studios Wikipedia page saying their next film is going to be Mona the Vampire
Extremely pleased that Flow won the Golden Globe because yay independent animation, but also how dare they when I haven’t seen it yet (Also Golden Globes, yuck) (Also do I know anyone who can help me watch Flow??)
End of Year Movie Rankings Dump Thread: Top 15 Animated Features of 2024* (*LOOSELY Defined)
So thrilled to cap off the year with audio commentaries on not one but two amazing animation blu rays Perfect Christmas gifts for the animation fan in your life or the Sam Summers fan in your life (if you know my mam)
Part of the dehumanization process of minorities is removing them from the culture so that it's easier to dehumanize them.
✪ Gray Skies Ahead ✪@jongraywb.blacksky.app · 2y agoDisney is not your friend. Disney has never been your friend. Disney will never be your friend. The Moon Girl thing was not a one-off, nor was Gravity Falls, nor was Owl House, nor was the disaster that was Strange World Every year at & around Pride, Disney wants LGBTQ money but yearly they do this
Seeing this hammers home how cowardly and hypocritical Disney have been in making this call (and many such calls in the past) The scene in question is barely making a political point. It’s barely touching on anything kids would learn about trans issues that they wouldn’t learn simply by going…
Lost Media Busters@lostmediabusters.bsky.social · 2y agoIn case you haven't seen, here's the entire now-removed LGBTQ+ scene from Pixar's Win Or Lose. Link here: archive.org/details/ksnx09
I definitely need to follow, like and post more here to get more out of it, but on the other hand about a third of the posts in my ‘discover’ feed are pictures of cross-stitching and that feels a bit off Is anyone else’s discover feed overrun with pictures of cross-stitching?
Favourite Animation First Watches: November 2024 Beautiful Men (2023) Chicken For Linda (2023) Pelikan Blue (2023) Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)
Had the most amazing run of watching killer animated* features this week. My top 200 list has taken an absolute pummelling! (Hyperboreans isn’t all animated but animation adjacent and incredible)
Watership Down Blu-ray is out this week! Really hope you enjoy our commentary track. These people did!
dr. cat@cinefeline.bsky.social · 2y agoI'm so delighted that the new Watership Down box set is being reviewed positively and especially to see such nice sentiments about mine and @drsamsummers.bsky.social audio-commentary!
