Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 05 | Nº 1

MARCH 2015

The emancipation of Dreamworks Animation

From children’s films to adult’s: narrative changes in animated films

Abstract

Some animation studios have abandoned the features of the classic cartoon style in order to create a new view. Thus, from the eighties, the animated films have been adding new codes to try to catch a new audience. A type of animation movies not for young people only but also for adults. Therefore, due to the higher photo-realistic visual style, some studios, like Dreamworks Animation, began to produce a kind of films that were the antithesis of the classic Disney model. Films that took the main stereotypes of children’s cinema to turn it into a product for the adult audience and the whole family.

Keywords: Animated films | genre | cartoon | production Dreamworks Animation.

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: La Emancipación de Dreamworks Animation

NOTAS

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Etica y Cine (Ethics & Films) is a Peer Reviewed Quarterly Journal Edited by
Department of Psychoanalysis and Department of Deontology, School of Psychology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Department of Psychology, Ethics and Human Rights, School of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
With the collaboration of:
Center for Medical Ethics (CME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
Under the auspicious of:
The International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

The emancipation of Dreamworks Animation

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