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Pixar and the aesthetic imagination : animation, storytelling, and digital culture
- Title
- Pixar and the aesthetic imagination : animation, storytelling, and digital culture / Eric Herhuth.
- Author
- Herhuth, Eric, 1983-
- Publication
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- xii, 240 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine modes of animation storytelling that address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and socio-cultural 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 sensorial intensities explore aesthetic experience and its relation to developments in global media, creative capitalism, and consumer culture. This investigation considers Pixar's artificial worlds and transformational stories as opportunities for thinking through aesthetics as a contested domain committed to newness and innovation, as well as criticism and pluralistic thought"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Aesthetic storytelling: a tradition and theory of animation -- The uncanny integrity of digital commodities (Toy story) -- From the technological to the postmodern sublime (Monsters, Inc.) -- The exceptional dialectic of the fantastic and the mundane (The Incredibles) -- Disruptive sensation and the politics of the new (Ratatouille).
- Call Number
- JFE 17-2862
- ISBN
- 9780520292550
- 0520292553
- 9780520292567
- 0520292561
- LCCN
- 2016026841
- OCLC
- 948339285
- Author
- Herhuth, Eric, 1983- author.
- Title
- Pixar and the aesthetic imagination : animation, storytelling, and digital culture / Eric Herhuth.
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-2862