The LEGO Movie
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The LEGO Movie

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The LEGO Movie

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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 questions, Dana Polan traces LEGO from thing to film and asserts that The LEGO Movie is an exemplar of key directions in mainstream cinema, combining the visceral impact of effects and spectacle with ironic self-awareness and savvy critique of mass culture as it reaches for new heights of creativity.

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 within 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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Publisher
University of Texas Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781477321591
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Prologue
  8. The World of Animation and the Animation of the World
  9. The LEGO Movie as Savvy Cinema
  10. Through the Rabbit Hole, into the LEGO-Verse
  11. Falling into Narrative
  12. The Extraordinary Ordinariness of LEGO
  13. The Secret Life of Toys
  14. Production History, Part 1: Project Development as LEGO Goes to the Movies
  15. Production History, Part 2: The Animation Process
  16. Production History, Part 3: The Screenwriter-Directors
  17. Reception and After-Life
  18. Coda
  19. Acknowledgments
  20. Notes
  21. LEGO Bibliography
  22. Index