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The LEGO movie /Dana Polan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: 21st century film essentialsPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, (c)2020.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781477321591
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .L446 2020
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
Subject: 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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PN1997.2.4548 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1159643537

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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