Contemporary Hollywood Animation
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-1056-4 (ISBN)
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.1.2021 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Gewicht | 490 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-1056-1 / 1474410561 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-1056-4 / 9781474410564 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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