The emancipation of Dreamworks Animation
From children’s films to adult’s: narrative changes in animated films
Marcos García-Ergüín Maza

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


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