Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination: Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture

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.

Author: Eric Herhuth
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 01/10/2017
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780520292567
ISBN10: 0520292561
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
- Performing Arts | Animation (see also Film | Genres | Animated)

About the Author
Eric Herhuth is Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Communication at Tulane University.