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Pixar's America The Re-Animation of American Myths and Symbols.

By: Meinel, Dietmar.
Contributor(s): Ohio Library and Information Network.
Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2016Description: 240 p.ISBN: 9783319316338.Subject(s): Pixar (Firm) | Animated films -- Social aspects -- United States | Animated films -- United States -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
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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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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