Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination : Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture / Eric Herhuth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herhuth, Eric, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pixar (Firm).

Toy story (Motion picture).

Monsters, Inc. (Motion picture).

Incredibles (Motion picture).

Ratatouille (Motion picture).

Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

Motion pictures.

Animated films--United States--Psychological aspects.

Animated films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520966055

0520966058

OCLC:

965831620