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Draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine modes of animation storytelling that address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and socio-cultural change.

Table of 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

Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/01/2017
      ISBN13: 9780520292567, 978-0520292567
      ISBN10: 0520292561

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine modes of animation storytelling that address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and socio-cultural change.

      Table of 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

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