Pixar's America : the re-animation of American myths and symbols /: the re-animation of American myths and symbols. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dietmar Meinel.
• Authors: Meinel, Dietmar
• Contents: Introduction: Exceptional Animations;The Rise to Popularity: The Pixar Studios and Digital Animation.-Chapter 1;Transnational Aesthetics? The Animation and Mediation of American Culture.-Chapter 2'You Better Play Nice:' Digital Enchantment and the Performance of Toyness in Toy Story (1995) Fearful Sheriff Dolls and Oblivious Space Ranger Action FiguresStupid, Little, Insignificant Toys.-Chapter 3;An Animated Toast to the Ephemeral: The Multicultural Logic of Late Capitalism in Toy Story 2 (1999).-Chapter 4;Chapter 9;Driving In Circles: The American Puritan Jeremiad in Cars (2006) Narratives of Individual and National Decline.-Chapter 10;Animating a Yet Unimagined America? The Mediation of American Exceptionalism in Toy Story 3 (2010).
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Subjects: 791.43340973; Animated films -- United States -- History and criticism; Animated films; Motion pictures; Social Science -- General; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- General; Cultural studies; Films, cinema; Film theory & criticism; Animated films
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319316345
• Related ISBNs: 9783319316338
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.