Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination

Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Performing Arts, Film
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Author: Eric Herhuth ISBN: 9780520966055
Publisher: University of California Press Publication: January 10, 2017
Imprint: University of California Press Language: English
Author: Eric Herhuth
ISBN: 9780520966055
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication: January 10, 2017
Imprint: University of California Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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