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Pixar's America : the re-animation of American myths and symbols
- Title
- Pixar's America : the re-animation of American myths and symbols / Dietmar Meinel.
- Author
- Meinel, Dietmar
- Publication
- [Cham] : Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland, [2016].
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- xi, 240 pages; 22 cm
- Alternative Title
- Re-animation of American myths and symbols
- Subject
- Note
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Freie Universität, Berlin.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index.
- Contents
- Exceptional animation : an introduction -- "you better play nice" : digital enchantment and the performance of toyness in Toy Story (1995) -- An animated toast to the ephemeral : the multicultural logic of late capitalism in Toy Story 2 (1999) -- A story of social justice? The liberal consensus in Monsters, Inc. (2001) -- "From rags to moderate riches" : the American dream in Ratatouille (2007) -- "Space. The final fun-tier" : returning home to the frontier in WALL-E (2008) -- Empire is out there!? The spirit of imperialism in Up (2009) -- "And when everyone is super ... no one will be" : the end of the American myth in The Incredibles (2004) -- Driving in circles : the American puritan Jeremiad in Cars (2006) -- Animating a yet unimagined America? The mediation of American exceptionalism in Toy Story 3 (2010).
- Call Number
- JQD 17-305
- ISBN
- 9783319316338
- 3319316338
- LCCN
- 9783319316338
- OCLC
- 959226804
- Author
- Meinel, Dietmar, author.
- Title
- Pixar's America : the re-animation of American myths and symbols / Dietmar Meinel.
- Publisher
- [Cham] : Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland, [2016].
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index.
- Other Form:
- (GyWOH)har160484482
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9783319316338
- Research Call Number
- JQD 17-305