1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454698403321

Autore

Perelman Michael

Titolo

Manufacturing discontent [[electronic resource] ] : the trap of individualism in corporate society / / Michael Perelman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2005

ISBN

1-78371-848-X

1-84964-280-X

1-281-75085-9

9786611750855

1-4356-6255-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

306.3/4

Soggetti

Social responsibility of business - United States

Corporations - Social aspects - United States

Individualism - United States

Consumption (Economics) - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-202) and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154714403321

Autore

Herhuth Eric

Titolo

Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination : Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture / / Eric Herhuth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-520-96605-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Disciplina

791.43/34

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Aesthetics

Animated films - United States - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Aesthetic Storytelling: A Tradition and Theory of Animated Film -- 2. The Uncanny Integrity of Digital Commodities (Toy Story) -- 3. From the Technological to the Postmodern Sublime (Monsters, Inc.) -- 4. The Exceptional Dialectic of the Fantastic and the Mundane (The Incredibles) -- 5. Disruptive Sensation and the Politics of the New (Ratatouille) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and sociocultural change. Since producing the first fully computer-animated feature film, Pixar Animation Studios has been a creative force in digital culture and popular entertainment. But, more specifically, its depictions of uncanny toys, technologically sublime worlds, fantastic characters, and meaningful sensations explore aesthetic experience and its relation to developments in global media, creative capitalism, and consumer culture. This investigation finds in Pixar's artificial worlds and transformational stories opportunities for thinking through aesthetics as a contested domain committed to newness and innovation as well as to criticism and pluralistic thought.