Contemporary Hollywood Animation : Style, Storytelling, Culture and Ideology since the 1990s /

Contemporary Hollywood Animation : Style, Storytelling, Culture and Ideology since the 1990s / Noel Brown.

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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Brown, Noel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
Series:Traditions in American cinema.
Subjects:
Animated films > United States > History and criticism.
Animated films.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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.

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