Review of Christopher Holliday. The Computer-Animated Film. Industry, Style and Genre. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. 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…
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‘Shrek Is Love, Shrek Is Life’: The Complex Nostalgia of DreamWorks Memes
by Sam Summers • January 15, 2018 • 5 Comments
Last month, I wrapped up a PhD thesis looking at DreamWorks’ influence on the prevailing aesthetic trends in the American computer-animated features of the 21st century. I have spent many words examining how, with films like Antz (1998), Shrek (2001),…
Outside In: Taking on the major studios in the Animated Feature Oscar race
by Sam Summers • February 28, 2016 • 0 Comments
It would not be controversial to say that the continued importance and relevance of the Academy Awards is highly questionable, with this year’s crop of nominations in particular rightfully coming under fire for their lack of diversity. There is, however,…
From The Lego Movie to Emoji: Adapting the Unadaptable
by Sam Summers • August 25, 2015 • 1 Comment
Late last month it was announced that Sony Pictures Animation spent nearly a million dollars on the rights to a movie pitch revolving around Emoji, those colourful little icons inserted into text messages when mere words are not enough to…