02948nam 22004935 450 991015471440332120230809233708.00-520-96605-810.1525/9780520966055(CKB)4340000000022901(MiAaPQ)EBC4456492(OCoLC)965831620(MdBmJHUP)muse53136(DE-B1597)519019(OCoLC)965825560(DE-B1597)9780520966055(EXLCZ)99434000000002290120190920d2017 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierPixar and the Aesthetic Imagination Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture /Eric HerhuthBerkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]©20171 online resource (253 pages) illustrations, photographs0-520-29256-1 0-520-29255-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexIn 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.Motion picturesAestheticsAnimated filmsUnited StatesPsychological aspectsMotion picturesAesthetics.Animated filmsPsychological aspects.791.43/34Herhuth Eric, 1208376DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910154714403321Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination2787597UNINA