Author:
Meinel, Dietmar.
Imprint:[Cham] : Palgrave Macmillan Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland, c2016.
Descriptionxi, 240 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral-Berlin).
Note:1. Exceptional animation : an introduction -- From failure to fame: the Pixar Studio and digital animation -- Animating revolt or monstrous beings? -- All ages admitted -- "Every line drawn, object moved, and shape changed" -- Animating the myths and symbols of American culture -- Remediating the myths and symbols of American culture -- 2. "You better play nice" : digital enchantment and the performance of toyness in Toy Story (1995) -- Fearful sheriff dolls and oblivious space-ranger action figures -- Stupid, little, insignificant toys -- The space-traveling American Adam -- The enchanting performance of toyness -- 3. An animated toast to the ephemeral : the multicultural logic of late capitalism in Toy Story 2 (1999) -- The multicultural myth of Woody, Buzz, and Bill -- A postmodern toy story --The digital logic of late capitalism -- A toast to the ephemeral --4.A story of social justice? The liberal consensus in Monsters, Inc. (2001) -- Monsters of plenty -- The liberal consensus of Monstropolis -- A good society of monsters: individualism, meritocracy, and affirmative government -- Animating the good society? --The green, one-eyed schlemiel --5. "From rags to moderate riches" : the American dream in Ratatouille (2007) -- Pixar's animated American dream -- Class, space, and the animated dream --Hyper-white food critics and non-white chefs: the villains in Ratatouille -- Learning to perform: middle class, the Ratatouille restaurant, and (the aesthetics of) ordinary whiteness -- An exceptionalist rat? --6. "Space. The final fun-tier" : returning home to the frontier in WALL-E (2008) --The significance of the post-apocalyptic frontier -- Mediating the frontier: consumerism, nostalgia, and digital cinematography -- Gendered robots: male garbage compressors and female drones -- The brave, new world aboard the Axiom --Earth, the final frontier -- 7. Empire is out there!? The spirit of imperialism in Up (2009) -- The imperial fantasies of James, Carl, and Charles --Adventure is here: rewriting the imperial fantasy --The spirit of the informal empire --8. "And when everyone is super ... no one will be" : the end of the American myth in The Incredibles (2004) --"Celebrating mediocrity" --The Incredibles: a voluntary association --Victimizing the white, male superhero body --From heroine to homemaker...to heroine, again --Leaving suburbia --9. Driving in circles : the American puritan jeremiad in Cars (2006) --Narratives of individual and national decline -- Imagined pasts: the jeremiad and the golden age of the 1950s --Imagined spaces: the American South -- The sound of American myths and symbols -- 10. Animating a yet unimagined America? The mediation of American exceptionalism in Toy Story 3 (2010) -- Errand into the daycare wilderness --Sinners in the hands of an angry garbage incinerator --A yet unimagined America?
