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In this first book on The LEGO Movie, renowned film and TV scholar Dana Polan shows how, through irony, savvy self-awareness, and knowingness about the culture industry, the blockbuster animated film makes for essential cinema.
List of 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
Acknowledgments
Notes
LEGO Bibliography
Index
About the author
Dana Polan is a professor of cinema studies in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and former president of the Society for Cinema Studies. He is the author of eight books in film and media studies, including
The Sopranos and
Pulp Fiction, and approximately two hundred essays and reviews.
Summary
In this first book on The LEGO Movie, renowned film and TV scholar Dana Polan shows how, through irony, savvy self-awareness, and knowingness about the culture industry, the blockbuster animated film makes for essential cinema.
