The Computer-Animated Film: Industry, Style and Genre - Softcover

Christopher Holliday

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474427898 ISBN 13: 9781474427890

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Widely credited for the revival of feature-length animated filmmaking within contemporary Hollywood, computer-animated films are today produced within a variety of national contexts and traditions. Covering thirty years of computer-animated film history, and analysing over 200 different examples, The Computer-Animated Film: Industry, Style and Genre persuasively argues that this body of work constitutes a unique genre of mainstream cinema. Informed by wider technological discourses and the status of animation as an industrial art form, the book not only theorises computer-animated films through their formal properties, but connects elements of film style to animation practice and the computer-animated film's unique production contexts.

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Review

"The Computer-Animated Film is ambitious in its scope and comprehensive in its coverage, which alone would make a go-to text in the still-comparatively underserved field of contemporary animation. On top of this, its intelligent critique and potentially controversial genre-based approach make it an engaging read for experienced animation scholars." -- animationstudies 2.0, Sam Summers

About the Author

Christopher Holliday teaches Film Studies and Liberal Arts at King's College London specializing in film genre, international film history, digital media, film technology and animation. He has published several book chapters and journal articles on contemporary Hollywood animation, and is currently co-editing a collection of essays that examines the historical, cultural and theoretical points of intersection between fantasy and animation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1474427898
• ISBN 13: 9781474427890
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272