Contemporary Hollywood Animation

Style, Storytelling, Culture and Ideology Since the 1990s

Noel Brown (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2023
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-0807-0 (ISBN)

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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, hopes and fears of the nation.

Until the 1990s, animation occupied a relatively marginal presence in Hollywood. Today, it is at the very heart of both the film industry and contemporary popular culture. Charting the major changes and continuities in Hollywood animation over the past thirty years, this groundbreaking book offers an authoritative history of Hollywood animation since the 1990s. Analysing dozens of key films, including The Lion King, Toy Story, Shrek, Despicable Me, Frozen and Moana, it examines the emergence of new genres and stylistic approaches, as well as the ongoing blurring of boundaries between animation and live-action. Identifying narrative and thematic patterns, and the developments in industry and style, the book explores how animation in the United States both responds to and recapitulates the values, beliefs, hopes and fears of the nation.

Noel Brown is Associate Professor in Film at Liverpool Hope University, UK. He has written several books on aspects of children’s film, family entertainment and animation, including Contemporary Hollywood Animation (2021), The Children’s Film (2017), British Children’s Cinema (2016) and The Hollywood Family Film (2012). He is also editor of The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Film (2022), and series editor of ‘Children’s Film and Television’ for Edinburgh University Press.

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

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

Production Trends

Animation and Hollywood Cinema Since the 1970s

Style and Aesthetics

Storytelling and Narrative

2. 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

3. Hollywood Animation, Late Modernity and Contemporary America

Postmodern Irony: DreamWorks and Beyond

Social Comment and Contemporary America

4. 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

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

Children’s Horror and Contemporary Hollywood

‘Indiewood’ Animation

Hybridisation

Conclusion

Notes

Select Filmography

Select Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2022
Reihe/Serie	Traditions in American Cinema
Zusatzinfo	14 black and white illustrations, 6 black and white tables
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10	1-3995-0807-5 / 1399508075
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-0807-0 / 9781399508070
Zustand	Neuware