Visuality and Narration in Monsters, Inc.

• Authors: Jens Schröter
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The overblown rhetoric concerning the “digital revolution” conceals deep continuities between traditional and new forms. As the example Monsters, Inc. shows established forms of narration can be used together with new forms of computer generated images. The complexities of this constellation are described by an analysis of the film.

Keywords

EN

digital revolution; narration; computer graphics; neoformalism; Pixar

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 35-47

Dates

published

2013-11-01

online

2014-05-30

Contributors

author

Jens Schröter

• University of Siegen (Germany)

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/ausfm-2014-0013