Contemporary Hollywood animation : style, storytelling, culture and ideology since the 1990s / Noel Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Noel, author.

Series:

Traditions in American cinema.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Traditions in American cinema

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animated films--United States--History and criticism.

Animated films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 216 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Analysing dozens of key animated films, this book examines the emergence of new genres and stylistic approaches, as well as the ongoing blurring of boundaries between animation and live-action and explores how animation in the United States both responds to and recapitulates the values, beliefs, hopes, and fears of the nation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

1. Change and Continuity: The Making of Contemporary Hollywood Animation

2. Crossing Boundaries: Families, Audiences and the Mainstream Aesthetic

3. Hollywood Animation, Late Modernity and Contemporary America

4. Ways of Being: Identity and Hollywood Animation

5. On the Borders: Children’s Horror and Indiewood Animation

Conclusion

Notes

Select Filmography

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 26, 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-1058-8

1-4744-9517-6

1-4744-1057-X

OCLC:

1306540955