The computer-animated film : industry, style and genre / Christopher Holliday.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holliday, Christopher (Christopher David), author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

Motion pictures.

Computer animation.

Physical Description:

vi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Widely credited for the revival of feature length animated filmmaking within contemporary Hollywood, computer animated films are today produced within a variety of national contexts and traditions. The Computer-Animated Film covers thirty years of computer-animated film history and analyses over two hundred different examples, persuasively arguing that this body of work constitutes a unique genre of mainstream cinema. Informed by wider technological discourses and the status of animation as an industrial art form, the book not only theorises computer-animated films through their formal properties, but also connects elements of film style to animation practice and the computer-animated film's unique production contexts. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Falling with Style? The Computer-Animated Film and Genre 24

2 Towards a Journey Narrative Syntax 41

3 Notes on a Luxo World 63

4 Computer-Animated Films and Anthropomorphic Subjectivity 85

5 Object Transformation and the Spectacle of Scrap 109

6 Pixar, Performance and Puppets 127

7 Monsters, Synch: A Taxonomy of the Star Voice 144

8 From Wile E. to Wall-E: Computer-Animated Film Comedy 165

9 Dream Works Animation, Metalepsis and Diegetic Deconstruction 187

10 The Mannerist Game 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-256) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781474427883

147442788X

OCLC:

1012617204