HOME IN PIXAR FILMS: CREATIVE USE AND MEANING

Abstract

Pixar films is known worldwide as a synonym for quality family cinema. Its movies, like others from Hollywood, aimed at this audience, employ classic homecoming plots. However, the home in these productions has not generated academic works that comprehensively address the concept, treating only the narrative structure or its representation from some of its facets, and many times these papers are approached from cultural and gender studies, and they do not cover all titles available from this company. The purpose of this article is to explore the narrative strategies that Pixar uses to portray the home in its feature films, from 1995 to 2021, to find the meaning on this matter that their stories communicate. For this, a textual analysis of these films is carried out, in relation to three dimensions of the home, ranging from the material to the abstract: house, cities and plots, which define what a homeland is and where the hearts of the characters lie. Finally, it is concluded that the sense of home in this film study falls on a notion of family, open and changing, in which the value of work as a passion and fulfillment of the hero at the service of others is crucial. A creative vision that contributes to the longevity of the stories and defends the validity of positive actions for the construction of society.