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'Masterfully handling vast amounts of sources, this engagingly written book combines concise film analyses with the discussion of relevant film industrial and cultural contexts. It focuses on the contemporary period but also covers key developments in feature animation in the United States since the 1930s. This is essential reading for anyone interested in American animation or, more generally, in American cinema and culture.'
Peter Krämer, Leicester Media School at De Montfort University
'Overturning prejudices that have often marginalised the study of mainstream animation, Brown provides a compelling overview of post-1990s Hollywood animation. Detailing the contributions of Disney, DreamWorks, LAIKA and Pixar, amongst others, Brown establishes a nuanced history that promotes a rich understanding of computer-based, hand-drawn, and stop-motion animation in equal measure.'
Chris Pallant, Canterbury Christ Church University
Until the 1990s, animation occupied a relatively marginal presence in Hollywood. Today, it is at the very heart of both the film industry and contemporary popular culture. Charting the major changes and continuities in Hollywood animation over the past thirty years, this groundbreaking book offers an authoritative history of Hollywood animation since the 1990s. Analysing dozens of key films, including The Lion King, Toy Story, Shrek, Despicable Me, Frozen and Moana, it examines the emergence of new genres and stylistic approaches, as well as the ongoing blurring of boundaries between animation and live-action. Identifying narrative and thematic patterns, and developments in industry and style, the book explores how animation in the United States both responds to and recapitulates the values, beliefs, hopes and fears of the nation.
Noel Brown is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Liverpool Hope University.
Cover image: Frozen (2013, animated) Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee. Disney/Photofest © Disney
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Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
1. Change and Continuity: The Making of Contemporary Hollywood Animation
Production Trends
Animation and Hollywood Cinema Since the 1970s
Style and Aesthetics
Storytelling and Narrative
2. Crossing Boundaries: Families, Audiences and the Mainstream Aesthetic
The Family Audience
Repositioning the Family: The Lion King and Toy Story
Family and Kinship
Family and Individualism
Child/Adult Crossovers
3. Hollywood Animation, Late Modernity and Contemporary America
Postmodern Irony: DreamWorks and Beyond
Social Comment and Contemporary America
4. Ways of Being: Identity and Hollywood Animation
Disney in Transition: Sexual Politics in the Early Films of the 'Disney Renaissance'
Diversity and Contemporary Disney Films
Women and the Contemporary Princess Film
Models of Masculinity
5. On the Borders: Children's Horror and Indiewood Animation
Children's Horror and Contemporary Hollywood
'Indiewood' Animation
Hybridisation
Conclusion
Notes
Select Filmography
Select Bibliography
Index
Noel Brown is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Liverpool Hope University
