13 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise's 1991 Disney animated film in which Belle voluntarily enters the Beast's castle and her love transforms the cursed prince — Peterson's primary popular cultural example of the feminine perceiving and redeeming the masculine shadow.
American computer scientist and co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios — who invented computer graphics algorithms (Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces, texture mapping) and led Pixar and later Disney Animation to produce 20+ consecutive critically and commercially successful films through a distinctive creative culture.
Gerald Scarfe is a British caricaturist and animator known for vicious political cartoons in Private Eye and The Sunday Times, and for the landmark animation sequences in 'Pink Floyd: The Wall'.
Katsuhiro Otomo is a Japanese manga artist and filmmaker who created 'Akira' — first as a manga (1982–1990) and then as an animated film (1988) — and produced one of the most influential works of science fiction in any medium.
A 1982 film by Alan Parker featuring animation by Gerald Scarfe, built around Pink Floyd's album and depicting the psychological disintegration of a rock star named Pink.
1940 Disney animated film in which wooden puppet Pinocchio must prove himself brave, truthful, and unselfish to become a real boy — and whose lies make his nose grow — a narrative Peterson reads as the mythological map of conscience formation.
1994 Disney animated film in which young lion Simba, traumatized by his father's murder, flees into exile until he is called back to confront his murderous uncle and assume his rightful place as king.
American film director and visual artist known for his dark, Gothic fantasy aesthetic — Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Beetlejuice — and the most commercially successful auteur style in Hollywood history.
American animator and entrepreneur — co-founder of The Walt Disney Company — creator of Mickey Mouse, Snow White (first feature-length animated film), Fantasia, Bambi, Cinderella, and the concept of the theme park (Disneyland, 1955) — one of the most creatively productive entrepreneurs in American history.
American animation studio that revolutionized computer-generated filmmaking — creating 27 consecutive films that all opened at #1, with a combination of technical innovation and emotionally sophisticated storytelling.
Walt Disney's original collaborator and the animator who designed Mickey Mouse — one of the most technically gifted animators in Hollywood history, though overshadowed by Disney's business genius.
American animated satirical TV series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone — debuted 1997 on Comedy Central — set in the fictional Colorado town of South Park — featuring four elementary school boys — the most sustained, incisive, and equal-opportunity satirical television series in American broadcast history.
2008 Pixar animated film directed by Andrew Stanton — depicting a small waste-collecting robot left alone on an abandoned Earth — nearly silent for its first act — a formally experimental animated film combining ecological warning, love story, and critique of consumer passivity into the most acclaimed Pixar production.