The Computer-Animated Film

Industry, Style and Genre

Christopher Holliday (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2018
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-2788-3 (ISBN)

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Widely credited for the revival of feature-length animated filmmaking within contemporary Hollywood, computer-animated films are today produced within a variety of national contexts and traditions. Covering thirty years of computer-animated film history, and analysing over 200 different examples, The Computer-Animated Film: Industry, Style and Genre persuasively argues that this body of work constitutes a unique genre of mainstream cinema. Informed by wider technological discourses and the status of animation as an industrial art form, the book not only theorises computer-animated films through their formal properties, but connects elements of film style to animation practice and the computer-animated film’s unique production contexts.

Christopher Holliday teaches Film Studies and Liberal Arts at King’s College London specializing in film genre, international film history, digital media, film technology and animation. He has published several book chapters and journal articles on contemporary Hollywood animation, and is currently co-editing a collection of essays that examines the historical, cultural and theoretical points of intersection between fantasy and animation.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Falling with style? The Computer-Animated Film and Genre

2. Towards a Journey Narrative syntax

3. Notes on a Luxo world

4. Computer-Animated Films and Anthropomorphic Subjectivity

5. Object Transformation and the Spectacle of Scrap

6. Pixar, Performance and Puppets

7. Monsters, Synch: A Taxonomy of the Star Voice

8. From Wile E. to Wall-E: Computer-Animated Film Comedy

9. Dreamworks Animation, Metalepsis and Diegetic Deconstruction

10. The Mannerist Game

Conclusion: Satisfying a Spirit of Adventure

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2018
Zusatzinfo	20 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	548 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-2788-X / 147442788X
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-2788-3 / 9781474427883
Zustand	Neuware