New York: the animated city

Chris Pallant

doi:10.1179/1477570013Z.00000000056

New York: the animated city

Chris Pallant

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Abstract

The urban landscape of New York City is one that is familiar to many, but, through the medium of animation, this familiarity has been consistently challenged. Often metamorphic, and always meticulously constructed, animated imagery encourages reflective thinking. Focusing on the themes of construction, destruction, and interactivity, this article seeks to cast critical light upon the animated double life that New York City has lived through the following moving image texts: Disney’s Fantasia 2000 (1999), Patrick Jean’s computer-generated short Pixels (2009), and Rockstar Games’ open-world blockbuster Grand Theft Auto IV (2008).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	349-360
Journal	Comparative American Studies
Volume	11
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1179/1477570013Z.00000000056
Publication status	Published - Dec 2013

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