TY  - BOOK
AU  - Polan,Dana B.
TI  - The LEGO movie /Dana Polan
T2  - 21st century film essentials
SN  - 9781477321591
AV  - PN1997 .L446 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Austin
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - LEGO movie (Motion picture)
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Production and direction
KW  - United States
KW  - Animated films
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - LEGO toys
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - Incorporating insights from conversations with producer Dan Lin and writer-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Polan examines the production and reception of The LEGO Movie and closely analyzes the film within popular culture at large and in relation to LEGO as a toy and commodity. He identifies the film's particular stylistic and narrative qualities, its grasp of and response to the culture industry, and what makes it a distinctive work of animation among the seeming omnipresence of animation in Hollywood, and reveals why the blockbuster film, in all its silliness and seriousness, stands apart as a divergent cultural work"--
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