The LEGO movie / Dana Polan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Polan, Dana B., 1953- author.

Series:

21st Century Film Essentials Series

21st century film essentials

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

LEGO movie (Motion picture).

Motion pictures--Production and direction--United States.

Motion pictures.

Animated films--History and criticism.

Animated films.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2020]

Summary:

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"-- Provided by publisher

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781477321591

1477321594

9781477321584

1477321586

OCLC:

1159643537