Christopher Holliday is Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Visual Cultures Education in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities at King’s College London. His research is largely concerned with digital media technologies and forms of computer animation in contemporary visual culture, and he is specifically interested in Hollywood cinema’s multiple encounters with digital elements and effects. Christopher has published widely on Hollywood cinema, popular animation, and digital media, including in Animation Practice, Process & Production, animation: an interdisciplinary journal, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Journal of British Cinema and Television, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Journal of Early Popular Visual Culture, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and The London Journal. He is the author of The Computer-Animated Film: Industry, Style and Genre (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), and co-editor of the collections Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres (Routledge, 2018) and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: New Perspectives on Production, Reception, Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2021). Christopher is currently co-editing two critical anthologies. The first is focused on characters and aesthetics in animation as part of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Animation Studies series, to be published with Bloomsbury in 2025. The second is an interdisciplinary examination of the connections between animation as an industrial and creative art form and studies of performance. His new monograph, Smart Stardom: Advanced Digital Technologies and the Replication of Celebrity (co-written with Sarah Thomas), will be published as part of the Routledge Focus on Digital Media and Culture series in 2025. Christopher can also be found as the curator and creator of the website/blog/podcast www.fantasy-animation.org, an online educational resource dedicated to the study of the relationship between fantasy storytelling and the medium of animation.