Pixar's America : the Re-Animation of American Myths and Symbols
Meinel, Dietmar.
2016
NC1766.U6 M45 2016eb
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Title Pixar's America : the Re-Animation of American Myths and Symbols
Author Meinel, Dietmar.
ISBN 9783319316345
3319316346
3319316338
9783319316338
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31634-5.
Publication Details Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (245 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-31634-5. doi
Call Number NC1766.U6 M45 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 301
Summary This book examines the popular and critically acclaimed films of Pixar Animation Studios in their cultural and historical context. Whether interventionist sheriff dolls liberating oppressed toys (Toy Story) or exceptionally talented rodents hoping to fulfill their dreams (Ratatouille), these cinematic texts draw on popular myths and symbols of American culture. As Pixar films refashion traditional American figures, motifs and narratives for contemporary audiences, this book looks at their politics - from the frontier myth in light of traditional gender roles (WALL-E) to the notion of voluntary associations and neoliberalism (The Incredibles). Through close readings, this volume considers the aesthetics of digital animation, including voice-acting and the simulation of camera work, as further mediations of the traditional themes and motifs of American culture in novel form. Dietmar Meinel explores the ways in which Pixar films come to reanimate and remediate prominent myths and symbols of American culture in all their cinematic, ideological and narrative complexity.
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Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; chapter 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; Notes; chapter 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 AdamThe Enchanting Performance of Toyness; Notes; chapter 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; Notes; chapter 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 SchlemielNotes; chapter 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?; Notes; chapter 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 CinematographyGendered Robots: Male Garbage Compressors and€Female Drones; The Brave, New World Aboard the€Axiom; Earth. The€Final Frontier; Notes; chapter 7: Empire Is Out There!? The€Spirit of€Imperialism in€Up (2009); The Imperial Fantasies of€James, Carl, and€Charles; Adventure Is in€Here: Rewriting the€Imperial Fantasy; The Spirit of€the€Informal Empire; Notes; Chapter 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 AssociationVictimizing the€White, Male Superhero Body; From Heroine to€Homemaker & to€Heroine, Again; Leaving Suburbia; Chapter 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; Chapter 10: Animating a€Yet Unimagined America? The€Mediation of€American Exceptionalism in€Toy Story 3 (2010); Errand into the€Daycare Wilderness.

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