[Comicsstudiessociety] IJOCA animation review book available WORLDWIDE - The LEGO Movie

[Mike Rhode]

The book has been claimed, thank you.

Mike

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 12:53 PM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

> As usual, first to respond to me gets the review opportunity. In the US,
> we can have a hardcopy sent to you, but I have a pdf for worldwide
> reviewers.
>
> If you get it done by early Dec it will be in the next physical issue of
> the journal.
>
> Mike Rhode
> mrhode at gmail.com
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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.
>
>
> 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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> $21.95, Paperback
> 978-1-4773-2157-7
>
> PUBLICATION DATE:
> *10 November 2020*
>
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> *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.
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> PRAISE FOR *The LEGO Movie*
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> “Dana Polan is one of the most respected scholars in media studies and his
> book, *The LEGO Movie*, displays his rare ability to weave together a
> shrewd and refreshing array of insights. He systematically proves that this
> smart, savvy movie is well aware of its place within both consumer culture
> and the entertainment industry.”—*Richard Neupert, author of John
> Lasseter and the Rise of Pixar Style*
>
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