Pixar's America

1. Exceptional Animation: An Introduction
Dietmar Meinel

2. “You Better Play Nice”: Digital Enchantment and the Performance of Toyness in Toy Story (1995)
Dietmar Meinel

3. An Animated Toast to the Ephemeral: The Multicultural Logic of Late Capitalism in Toy Story 2 (1999)
Dietmar Meinel

4. A Story of Social Justice? The Liberal Consensus in Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Dietmar Meinel

5. “From Rags to Moderate Riches”: The American Dream in Ratatouille (2007)
Dietmar Meinel

6. “Space. The Final Fun-tier”: Returning Home to the Frontier in WALL-E (2008)
Dietmar Meinel

7. Empire Is Out There!? The Spirit of Imperialism in Up (2009)
Dietmar Meinel

8. “And when everyone is super … no one will be”: The End of the American Myth in The Incredibles (2004)
Dietmar Meinel

9. Driving in Circles: The American Puritan Jeremiad in Cars (2006)
Dietmar Meinel

10. Animating a Yet Unimagined America? The Mediation of American Exceptionalism in Toy Story 3 (2010)
Dietmar Meinel

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Animation, American Culture, American Cinema, Film Theory