Noel Brown is Associate Professor in Film at Liverpool Hope University, UK. He has written several books on aspects of children’s film, family entertainment and animation, including Contemporary Hollywood Animation (2021), The Children’s Film (2017), British Children’s Cinema (2016) and The Hollywood Family Film (2012). He is also editor of The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Film (2022), and series editor of ‘Children’s Film and Television’ for Edinburgh University Press.

Written with clarity and insight, Contemporary Hollywood Animation is a welcome addition to the recent literature of animation film, media industry, and world culture.

• Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1. Change and Continuity: The Making of Contemporary Hollywood Animation Production TrendsAnimation and Hollywood Cinema Since the 1970sStyle and AestheticsStorytelling and Narrative2. Crossing Boundaries: Families, Audiences and the Mainstream Aesthetic The Family AudienceRepositioning the Family: The Lion King and Toy StoryFamily and KinshipFamily and IndividualismChild/Adult Crossovers3. Hollywood Animation, Late Modernity and Contemporary AmericaPostmodern Irony: DreamWorks and BeyondSocial Comment and Contemporary America4. Ways of Being: Identity and Hollywood Animation Disney in Transition: Sexual Politics in the Early Films of the ‘Disney Renaissance’Diversity and Contemporary Disney FilmsWomen and the Contemporary Princess FilmModels of Masculinity5. On the Borders: Children’s Horror and Indiewood AnimationChildren’s Horror and Contemporary Hollywood‘Indiewood’ AnimationHybridisationConclusion NotesSelect Filmography Select BibliographyIndex

Noel Brown is Associate Professor in Film at Liverpool Hope University, UK. He has written several books on aspects of children’s film, family entertainment and animation, including Contemporary Hollywood Animation (2021), The Children’s Film (2017), British Children’s Cinema (2016) and The Hollywood Family Film (2012). He is also editor of The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Film (2022), and series editor of ‘Children’s Film and Television’ for Edinburgh University Press.

Written with clarity and insight, Contemporary Hollywood Animation is a welcome addition to the recent literature of animation film, media industry, and world culture.

• Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1. Change and Continuity: The Making of Contemporary Hollywood Animation Production TrendsAnimation and Hollywood Cinema Since the 1970sStyle and AestheticsStorytelling and Narrative2. Crossing Boundaries: Families, Audiences and the Mainstream Aesthetic The Family AudienceRepositioning the Family: The Lion King and Toy StoryFamily and KinshipFamily and IndividualismChild/Adult Crossovers3. Hollywood Animation, Late Modernity and Contemporary AmericaPostmodern Irony: DreamWorks and BeyondSocial Comment and Contemporary America4. Ways of Being: Identity and Hollywood Animation Disney in Transition: Sexual Politics in the Early Films of the ‘Disney Renaissance’Diversity and Contemporary Disney FilmsWomen and the Contemporary Princess FilmModels of Masculinity5. On the Borders: Children’s Horror and Indiewood AnimationChildren’s Horror and Contemporary Hollywood‘Indiewood’ AnimationHybridisationConclusion NotesSelect Filmography Select BibliographyIndex

Noel Brown is Associate Professor in Film at Liverpool Hope University, UK. He has written several books on aspects of children’s film, family entertainment and animation, including Contemporary Hollywood Animation (2021), The Children’s Film (2017), British Children’s Cinema (2016) and The Hollywood Family Film (2012). He is also editor of The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Film (2022), and series editor of ‘Children’s Film and Television’ for Edinburgh University Press.

Written with clarity and insight, Contemporary Hollywood Animation is a welcome addition to the recent literature of animation film, media industry, and world culture.

• Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1. Change and Continuity: The Making of Contemporary Hollywood Animation Production TrendsAnimation and Hollywood Cinema Since the 1970sStyle and AestheticsStorytelling and Narrative2. Crossing Boundaries: Families, Audiences and the Mainstream Aesthetic The Family AudienceRepositioning the Family: The Lion King and Toy StoryFamily and KinshipFamily and IndividualismChild/Adult Crossovers3. Hollywood Animation, Late Modernity and Contemporary AmericaPostmodern Irony: DreamWorks and BeyondSocial Comment and Contemporary America4. Ways of Being: Identity and Hollywood Animation Disney in Transition: Sexual Politics in the Early Films of the ‘Disney Renaissance’Diversity and Contemporary Disney FilmsWomen and the Contemporary Princess FilmModels of Masculinity5. On the Borders: Children’s Horror and Indiewood AnimationChildren’s Horror and Contemporary Hollywood‘Indiewood’ AnimationHybridisationConclusion NotesSelect Filmography Select BibliographyIndex