Christopher Holliday

The Computer-Animated Film

Industry, Style and Genre

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781474427883
• ISBN-10: 147442788X
• Artikelnr.: 49563390

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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