I went into a course that covered animation a couple of years ago expecting all of the literature to be fairly anti-Disney.
All the academics I read were at great pains to point out all the forms of animation that *aren't* cel-based, and to detail the traditions/genres of cel-based that were very different from Disney, and kind of at odds with the Disney tradition (like anime).
But then, we learnt *tons* of stuff about how Disney were so amazingly innovative, and were in many ways the driving force in creating a new medium. When the Russian director Eisenstein saw Snow White, he declared it the best film of all time.
Though, yeah, through such corporate success, Disney not only forced their competitors into using similarly soppy narratives, but they also engineered a factory-line type of animation that was imported everywhere, and which was highly restrictive.
I kinda liked 'Treasure Planet' and 'Atlantis'. It felt like Disney was really starting to branch out - probably to compete with anime. Pixar is great, but if Disney do phase out 2D animation I will be kinda sad, despite the evilness.
Just don't get me started on the homophobic, racist, misogynist subtexts of The Lion King...
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Date: 2004-12-01 12:49 pm (UTC)All the academics I read were at great pains to point out all the forms of animation that *aren't* cel-based, and to detail the traditions/genres of cel-based that were very different from Disney, and kind of at odds with the Disney tradition (like anime).
But then, we learnt *tons* of stuff about how Disney were so amazingly innovative, and were in many ways the driving force in creating a new medium. When the Russian director Eisenstein saw Snow White, he declared it the best film of all time.
Though, yeah, through such corporate success, Disney not only forced their competitors into using similarly soppy narratives, but they also engineered a factory-line type of animation that was imported everywhere, and which was highly restrictive.
I kinda liked 'Treasure Planet' and 'Atlantis'. It felt like Disney was really starting to branch out - probably to compete with anime. Pixar is great, but if Disney do phase out 2D animation I will be kinda sad, despite the evilness.
Just don't get me started on the homophobic, racist, misogynist subtexts of The Lion King...