Contemporary Hollywood Animation : Style, Storytelling, Culture and Ideology since the 1990s /
Analysing dozens of key animated films, the 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, hope...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Traditions in American cinema.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Change and continuity: the making of contemporary Hollywood animation: Production trends ; Animation and Hollywood cinema since the 1970s ; Style and aesthetics ; Storytelling and narrative ; Critical approach
- Crossing boundaries: families, audiences and the mainstream aesthetic: The family audience ; Repositioning the family: The lion king and Toy story ; Family and kinship ; Family and individualism ; Child-adult crossovers
- Hollywood animation, late modernity and contemporary America: Postmodern irony: DreamWorks and beyond ; Social comment and contemporary America ; Conclusion
- Ways of being: identity and Hollywood animation: Disney in transition: sexual politics in the early films of the 'Disney Renaissance' ; Diversity and contemporary Disney films ; Women and the contemporary princess film ; Models of masculinity ; Conclusion
- On the borders: children's horror and Indiewood animation: Children's horror and contemporary Hollywood ; 'Indiewood' animation ; Hybridisation ; Conclusion
- Conclusion.
