The Last Unicorn: Death and the Legacy of Fantasy

2020 really got me making an hour-long video essay about mortality in a 1980s children’s movie about unicorns, huh? 00:00 - Intro 05:16 - Making the Unicorn 14:54 - Story Breakdown 24:20 - Memento Mori 37:09 - Deaths and Legacies 47:52 - Outro i did a super bad job of explaining the whole “on 2s“ thing so uhhh no worries if you’re confused by how i explained it. anyway, here is a list of the sources i used for this video; next time i think i’ll try to add in-video footnotes or something: - “The Unicorn“ by Nancy Hathaway - “The Anti-Consolation: Boethius and ’The Last Unicorn’“ by Alexandra Hennessey Olsen - “’Two Sides of the Same Magic’: The Dialect of Mortality and Immortality in Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn by Geoffrey Reiter - “Humankind and Reality: Illusion and Self-Deception in Peter S. Beagle’s Fiction“ by Richard C. West - “Innocence and Experience and the Imagi