Toy Story : : How Pixar Reinvented the Animated Feature / / edited by Susan Smith, Noel Brown and Sam Summers.

Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995), Pixar's first feature-length production and Hollywood's first completely computer-generated animated film, is an international cultural phenomenon. This collection brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners who together explore the themes...

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Superior document:Animation: key films/filmmakers
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Place / Publishing House:New York : : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Animation: key films/filmmakers.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 248 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Toy story, Pixar and contemporary Hollywood
  • Toy story and the Hollywood family film
  • The cowboy, the spaceman and the guru : character and convention in the screenwriting of Toy stor
  • New and inherited aesthetics : designing for the Toy story trilogy one film at a time
  • Rough and smooth : the everyday textures of Toy story
  • Toying with performance : Toy story, virtual puppetry and computer-animated film acting
  • Toy stories through song : Pixar, Randy Newman and the sublimated film musical
  • From shelf to screen : toys as a site of intertextuality
  • Fear, guilt and the future of play in Toy story
  • Mirrors and shadows : duality, illusion and the divided self in Toy story
  • Woody, Buzz and the Koons corollary ... or why Toy story is art
  • Story is king : understanding the Toy story franchise as an allegory for the studio narrative of Pixar animation
  • An interview with Steve Segal
  • A guide to further research.