Francis M. Agnoli

Francis M. Agnoli is an American animation scholar.[1]

Biography

Agnoli received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of East Anglia.[1] His doctoral thesis – completed under Rayna Denison and Frederik Byrn Køhlert as advisors – analyzed depictions of race within the television series Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005–2008) and The Legend of Korra (2012–2014).[2]

He contributed a chapter to a 2018 edited collection, Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres, focused on The Tale of the Fox (1937), which the animation scholar Raz Greenberg identified as a well-known work in need of academic discussion.[3] In 2023, he served as the collection editor of The Avatar Television Franchise: Storytelling, Identity, Trauma and Fandom.[4]

Later that year, he published Race and the Animated Bodyscape, an examination of several components of racial presentation within Avatar and Korra, including its animation, voice acting, music, and worldbuilding.[5] The scholar Xinyu Chen called it "a significant contribution to the fields of animation and television studies" for presenting an atypical analysis of animated race.[6]

Selected bibliography

  • ——— (2018). "Fantastic French fox: the national identity of Le roman de renard (1941) as an animated film". In Holliday, Christopher; Sergeant, Alexander (eds.). Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-05437-0.
  • Mes, Tom; ——— (2021). "A modular genre? Problems in the reception of the post-Miyazaki 'Ghibli film'". Animation. 16 (3): 207–220. doi:10.1177/17468477211049360. ISSN 1746-8477.
  • ———, ed. (2023). The Avatar Television Franchise: Storytelling, Identity, Trauma and Fandom. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-5013-8717-3.
  • ——— (2023). Race and the Animated Bodyscape: Constructing and Ascribing a Racialized Asian Identity in Avatar and Korra. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-4968-4509-2.

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