Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination : Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture / / Eric Herhuth
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Herhuth Eric
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| Titolo: |
Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination : Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture / / Eric Herhuth
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2017] |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/34 |
| Soggetto topico: | Motion pictures - Aesthetics |
| Animated films - United States - Psychological aspects | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination |
| ISBN: | 0-520-96605-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910154714403321 |
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