Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination: Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture

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Eric Herhuth

Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination

Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture

Eric Herhuth

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University of California Press
10 January 2017

Animated movies & films; Popular culture; Media studies

In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and sociocultural change. Since producing the first fully computer-animated feature film, Pixar Animation Studios has been a creative force in digital culture and popular entertainment. But, more specifically, its depictions of uncanny toys, technologically sublime worlds, fantastic characters, and meaningful sensations explore aesthetic experience and its relation to developments in global media, creative capitalism, and consumer culture. This investigation finds in Pixar’s artificial worlds and transformational stories opportunities for thinking through aesthetics as a contested domain committed to newness and innovation as well as to criticism and pluralistic thought.

By: Eric Herhuth
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780520292550
ISBN 10: 0520292553
Pages: 255
Publication Date: 10 January 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eric Herhuth is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Tulane University, where he teaches for the Film Studies program.