TY - BOOK AU - Herhuth,Eric TI - Pixar and the aesthetic imagination: animation, storytelling, and digital culture SN - 9780520966055 AV - NC1766.U52 U1 - 791.43/34 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Oakland, California PB - University of California Press KW - Pixar (Firm) KW - fast KW - Toy story (Motion picture) KW - Monsters, Inc. (Motion picture) KW - Incredibles (Motion picture) KW - Ratatouille (Motion picture) KW - Motion pictures KW - Aesthetics KW - Animated films KW - United States KW - Psychological aspects KW - Cinéma KW - Esthétique KW - PERFORMING ARTS KW - Reference KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Aesthetic storytelling: a tradition and theory of animation -- The uncanny integrity of digital commodities (Toy story) -- From the technological to the postmodern sublime (Monsters, Inc.) -- The exceptional dialectic of the fantastic and the mundane (The Incredibles) -- Disruptive sensation and the politics of the new (Ratatouille) N2 - "In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine modes of animation storytelling that address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and socio-cultural 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 sensorial intensities explore aesthetic experience and its relation to developments in global media, creative capitalism, and consumer culture. This investigation considers Pixar's artificial worlds and transformational stories as opportunities for thinking through aesthetics as a contested domain committed to newness and innovation, as well as criticism and pluralistic thought"--Provided by publisher UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1436282 ER -