The LEGO Movie / / Dana Polan.
What happens when we set out to understand LEGO not just as a physical object but as an idea, an icon of modernity, an image—maybe even a moving image? To what extent can the LEGO brick fit into the multimedia landscape of popular culture, especially film culture, today? Launching from these questio...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | 21st Century Film Essentials
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue
- The World of Animation and the Animation of the World
- The LEGO Movie as Savvy Cinema
- Through the Rabbit Hole, into the LEGO-Verse
- Falling into Narrative
- The Extraordinary Ordinariness of LEGO
- The Secret Life of Toys
- Production History, Part 1: Project Development as LEGO Goes to the Movies
- Production History, Part 2: The Animation Process
- Production History, Part 3: The Screenwriter-Directors
- Reception and After-Life
- Coda
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- LEGO Bibliography
- Index