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Call No: GOOD DINOSAUR, THE (US, Peter Sohn, 2015)
Author: Maddox, Garry
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: PIXAR; SOHN, PETER; GOOD DINOSAUR, THE (US, Peter Sohn, 2015)
Summary: Interview Peter Sohn, the director of THE GOOD DINOSAUR where he discusses the film and working at Pixar

Call No: 203 FIN
Author: Finney, Angus
Edition: Second edition
Source: UK/US
Place: Abingdon, Oxon -- New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2015
PhysDes: xiv, 287 pages ; 25 cm
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM; PRODUCTION; DISTRIBUTION; EXHIBITION; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS; FINANCING; COPRODUCTION; REDBUS GROUP; RENAISSANCE FILMS; ZENTROPA [company]; ARTS ALLIANCE MEDIA; FILM DEPARTMENT, THE; PIXAR; BARKER, MICHAEL; PHAROAH, ASHLEY; RECKONING, THE (UK/SP, Paul McGuigan, 2002); OPAL DREAM (AT, Peter Cattaneo, 2005); KING'S SPEECH, THE (AT/UK, Tom Hooper, 2010); CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND (US, George Clooney, 2002); MOTHER, THE (UK, Roger Michell, 2003); BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, THE (UK, John Madden, 2011); CLOVERFIELD (US, Matt Reeves, 2008); VAPOR [Neil LaBute - not made]; GOOD OMENS [Terry Gilliam - not made]
Summary: The International Film Business examines the independent film sector as a business, and addresses the specific skills and knowledge it demands. It describes both the present state of the industry, the significant digital and social media developments that are continuing to take place, and what changes these might effect
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-275) and index
Contents: Part one: The film value chain -- Global film: a changing world -- The film value chain model and current restructring -- Film development -- Green lighting films -- Sales and markets -- Film producer-distributor partnerships -- Film finance -- Co-production -- Exhibition and the changing cinema experience -- Part 2: Users and the changing digital market -- Users, consumer behaviour and market research -- Traditional film marketing -- Digital production -- Digital distribution -- Film marketing through the internet -- Part 3: Business and management strategies -- Business strategy -- Entrepreneurs and investors in the film industry -- The challenge of creative management -- Project management -- Business models 2.0 -- Case study: interview with Simon Franks, Redbus Group -- Conclusion

Call No: 401"313" EVE
Place: New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: 23 cm; 274 pp
Series: AFI Film Readers
Subject: MEDIA; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY; PIXAR
Summary: The mushroom-like growth of new media technologies is radically challenging traditional media outlets. The proliferation of DVDs, MP3s, the Internet, and other technologies has freed the public from what we used to understand as “mass media”. These seismic shifts and ruptures have shaken to their core the theoretical and pedagogical foundations of film and TV studies. The concept of “new media” demands a necessary rethinking of the field. Writing from a range of disciplines and perspectives, the contributors to New Media propose theses and conceptual frameworks capable of engaging the numerous facets of emerging digital technology. [Taken from back cover.]
ISBN: 41593995X

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: PIXAR

Call No: 772 ROS
Author: Rosing, Lilian Munk
Edition: Paperback edition
Source: US/UK
Place: New York; London
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsburg Publishing
PubDate: 2017
PhysDes: 181 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: PIXAR; ANIMATION; THEORY; LACAN, JACQUES; TOY STORY (US, John Lasseter, 1995); TOY STORY 2 (US, John Lasseter, 1999); TOY STORY 3 (US, Lee Unkrich, 2010); BUG'S LIFE, A (US, John Lasseter & Andrew Stanton, 1998); MONSTERS, INC. (U S, Peter Docter & David Silverman, 2001); FINDING NEMO (US, Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich, 2003); INCREDIBLES, THE (US, Brad Bird, 2004); CARS (US, John Lasseter and Joe Ranft, 2006); RATATOUILLE (US, Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava, 2007); WALL-E (US, Andrew Stanton, 2008); UP (US, Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, 2009)
Summary: The films from Pixar Animation Studios are among the most popular family films today. From Monsters Inc. to Toy Story and Wall-E, Pixar's animated characters take on human qualities that demand more than just cultural analysis. What animates the human subject according to Pixar? What are the ideological implications of that animation? Pixar with Lacan has the double aim of analyzing pixar films while at once exemplifying important psychoanalytic concepts (the voice, the gaze, the partial object, the Other, the object a, the primal father, the name-of-the-father, symbolic castration, the imaginary/the real/the symbolic, desire and drive, the four discourses, masculine/feminine). In so doing , Lilian Munk Rosing expertly examines the ideological implications of the images of human existance in Pixar films.-- BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781501320170
Contents: -- Introduction -- Beyond the Name of the Father: Toy Story -- Big O is Watching You: Toy Story 2 -- Sadism in the Kindergarten: Toy Story 3 -- entertainment as warfare : A Bug's Life -- There is Nothing More Toxic than a Human Child: Monsters, Inc -- Just Keep Swimming: Finding Nemo -- More than Super: The Incredibles -- the Mother Road: Cars -- Man is a Puppet, Soul is a Rat: Ratatouille -- Humanity Stuck in Vacation Hell: Wall-E -- His Master's Voice: Up -- epilogue: animation and capitalism -- references -- filmography -- index --

Call No: DVD RESEARCH FOLDER; DVD RESEARCH FOLDER
Author: Keating, Gina
Subject: PIXAR; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; INCREDIBLES, THE (US, Brad Bird, 2004)
Summary: The Incredibles look set to become the 2nd highest selling DVD of all time behind Finding Nemo. Article also talks about relationship between Pixar and Walt Disney company.
Notes: -- accessed from: Factiva. Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC. RMIT University Library. (14 May 2007).

Call No: 71(73) "200"
Author: Archer, Neil
Edition: 2019
Place: New York; Chichester, UK
Publisher: Wallflower Press
PhysDes: 118 pages : illustrated ; 22 cm
Subject: AUDIENCE RESEARCH. USA; DEL TORO, GUILLERMO; DISNEY; FRANCHISES; MARVEL; PIXAR; WARNER BROS.
Summary: Twenty-First-Century Hollywood looks into the contexts of studio film production in the new century in order to understand what shapes the style and content of present-day cinema. In an era dominated in box-office terms by the franchise and the family film, this book combines close textual readings and industrial analysis, illustrating why these kinds of movies are favored in the contemporary climate by producers and audiences alike. Neil Archer critically explores the narrative and aesthetic strategies at work in Hollywood’s most high-profile films, from Harry Potter, to Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, to The Lego Movie. Along the way, the book answers some often unexpected questions: Why is Hollywood nervous about flying saucers? Why might the cinematic auteur be Hollywood’s savior? And why are the most grown-up movies those made for children? As this study shows, like the films themselves, the answers to these questions are often complex and surprising. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780231191593
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Rebooted? -- 1. Why Can’t Hollywood Rely on Flying Saucers? Industry, Audience and Franchise Logic -- 2. What Does Hollywood Really Like About Comic Books? Structure and Style in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe -- 3. Is Hollywood Saving the World, or Is the World Saving Hollywood? Industrial Authorship and Experimental Blockbusters -- 4. Why Are the Most Grown-Up Films Made for Children? Ways of Playing in the Family Film -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; PIXAR
Author: Johnson, Neala
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: PIXAR
Summary: The Pixar Animation president Jim Morris visits Australia and comments on the similarities and themes within all Pixar films

Call No: 772 SPI
Author: Spiegel, Josh
Source: US
Place: Philadelphia
Publisher: The Critical Press
PubDate: c2015
PhysDes: vi, 105p. ;
Subject: ANIMATION; PIXAR; NOSTALGIA IN FILMS; TOY STORY (US, John Lasseter, 1995); TOY STORY 2 (US, John Lasseter, 1999); TOY STORY 3 (US, Lee Unkrich, 2010); CARS (US, John Lasseter and Joe Ranft, 2006); UP (US, Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, 2009); MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (US, Dan Scanlon, 2013)
Summary: " Since its first feature film in 1995, Pixar Animation Studios has often been treated as a powerful, influential, and forward-thinking animation company. However, many of its films are incredibly besotted with a nostalgic longing for the past. From the Toy Story trilogy to the first Cars film, many of Pixar’s films are about chasing what used to be instead of embracing the future. In this book, published on the 20th anniversary of the original Toy Story’s release, Josh Spiegel examines some of the films from Pixar and Disney over the past 20 years that have embodied one of the most important lines of dialogue in Disney history, courtesy of theme-park narration: “Here, tomorrow is today. And yesterday is forever.” -- BOOK BACK COVER BLURB
ISBN: 9781941629239
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- Toy Story and Cars -- Toy Story 2 and Up -- Toy Story 3 and Monsters University -- Disney animation in the 2010s -- conclusion -- notes -- about the author --