Agony and Avoidance: Pixar, Deniability, and the Adult Spectator.

Pixar films expand the limitations typically binding G-rated films by employing a postmodern adaptation of the “principle of deniability,” a producer-designed multivalence. This deniability allows adult spectators to identify with the object, to distance themselves from “grown-up” cinema, and to contemplate adult fears through the guise of animation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]