Pixar Animation Studios

Authorship, Creativity and the Mouse

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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Beskrivning

Pixar Animation Studios: Authorship, Creativity and the Mouse explores the role of key themes and aesthetic approaches in Pixar’s films, arguing for the importance of Pixar’s ‘authorship’ as a studio to its initial growth, emerging identity and survival. Focusing on several dominant and interweaving themes, including the significance of ‘creativity’, of innovation and a focus on ‘realism’, and situating Pixar’s work in the history of recent cinema and technologies, the book shows how constructing an idea of artistic distinction in the cinematic marketplace both was and remains crucial to Pixar’s enduring success. Combining analysis of Pixar’s own in-house narratives, together with detailed case-studies across a range of its films, the book shows what it really means to talk about a ‘Pixar film’ and why this matters, both to the audience and to the studio itself.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2027-01-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399565165

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Film inom Kultur

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Neil Archer is Senior Lecturer in Film at Keele University and convenes the undergraduate module on film animation history and theory. He is the author of nine previous books, including Beyond a Joke: Parody in English Film and Television Comedy (2017), which was shortlisted for the BAFTSS Best Monograph prize; Twenty-First-Century Hollywood: Rebooting the System (2019); and The Social Network: Youth Film 2.0 (2022).

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Or, Why Do We Need A(nother) Book About Pixar?Part I. Constructing Pixar's Authorship1. Pixar as Paratext: Constructing the Studio as Author2. ‘Creativity, Ltd?’: The Invention of Imagination3. Disruption, Inc.: North of HollywoodPart II. Aesthetics: Pixar's Authorship in Practice4. Model Storytelling: Pixar and the Classical Screenplay5. Everything You Never Saw: Pixar’s Technological Aesthetics6. Animating ‘Real’ PerformancesConclusions: The Late(st) Pixar?BibliographyIndex