The Pixar touch : the making of a company / by Price, David A. 1961-

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Pixar with Lacan : the hysteric's guide to animation / by Rösing, Lilian Munk, 1967-

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Social order and authority in Disney and Pixar films /

Table of Contents: “…: Examining the Shifted Ability Spectrum in the Incredibles / Ethan Faust -- Risk and Reflexivity in Pixar's The Incredibles / Francine Rachford -- Out There: Science Fiction and Surveillance in Pixar's WALL-E and Up / Farisa Khalid -- Pixar's Coco: The Power of Celebrity and Its Impact on the Adolescent Mind / Susan Ray.…”

A bug's life : the art and making of an epic of miniature proportions / by Kurtti, Jeff

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To infinity and beyond! : the story of Pixar Animation Studios / by Paik, Karen

Table of Contents: “…Ed -- John -- Steve -- Pixar's early days -- Sound -- The early short films -- Toy Story -- Music -- Building a studio -- A Bug's Life -- "Geri's Game" -- Toy Story 2 -- Pixar University -- Pixar at home -- Voices -- Monsters, Inc. -- "For the Birds" -- Finding Nemo -- RenderMan -- The Incredibles -- "Boundin'" -- Cars -- "One Man Band" -- Pixar joins with Disney.…”

Creativity, Inc. : overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration / by Catmull, Edwin E., Wallace, Amy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Lost and found -- Getting started. Animated ; Pixar is born ; A defining goal ; Establishing Pixar's identity -- Protecting the new. …”

Pixarpedia /

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The Oxford handbook of sound studies /

Table of Contents: “…The sonic playpen: sound design and technology in Pixar's animated shorts /…”

Moving innovation : a history of computer animation / by Sito, Tom, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Film and television at the dawn of the digital revolution -- Analog dreams : bohemians, beatniks, and the Whitneys -- Spook work : the government and the military -- Academia -- Xerox PARC and corporate culture -- Hackers -- Nolan Bushnell and the games people play -- To dream the impossible dream : the New York Institute of Technology, 1974-1986 -- Motion picture visual effects and Tron -- Bob Abel, Whitney-Demos, and the eighties : the wild west of CG -- Motion capture : the uncanny hybrid -- The cartoon animation industry -- Pixar -- The conquest of Hollywood.…”

Flickers of film : nostalgia in the time of digital cinema / by Sperb, Jason, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Self-theorizing nostalgia -- I'll (always) be back: virtual performances; or, the cinematic logic of late capitalism -- They saw no future: new nostalgia movies and digital exhibition -- Digital decasia: preserving film, database histories, and the potential value of reflective nostalgia -- Going home ... for the first time: Pixar Studios, digital animation, and the limits of reflective nostalgia -- TRON legacies: Disney and nostalgia blockbusters in the age of transmedia storytelling -- Game (not) over: video-game pastiche and nostalgic disavowals in the postcinematic era -- Conclusion: On clouds and Be Kind Rewind.…”

The ride of a lifetime : lessons learned from 15 years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company / by Iger, Robert

Table of Contents: “…The power of respect ; Disney-Pixar and a new path to the future ; Marvel and massive risks that make perfect sense ; Star wars ; If you don't innovate, you die ; No price on integrity ; Core values -- Appendix: Lessons to lead by.…”

Becoming Steve Jobs : the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader / by Schlender, Brent

Table of Contents: “…-- A side bet -- Bill Gates pays a visit --Luck -- Bozos, bastards, and keepers -- Maybe they had to be crazy -- Following your nose -- Do your level best -- Two decisions -- Stanford -- A safe haven for Pixar -- The whole widget -- Blind spots, grudges, and sharp elbows -- "Just tell them I'm being an asshole."…”

America's corporate art : the studio authorship of Hollywood motion pictures / by Christensen, Jerome, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…. : Bonnie and Clyde, the movements, and the merger (1964-1968) -- Post-Warners Warners : Batman and JFK; You've got mail (1989-1998) -- The conscience of a corporation : toys united the Disney-Pixar merger, and the assertion of "cultural" authorship (1995-2010).…”

Translation, globalization and younger audiences. The situation in Poland. by Borodo, Michal

Dreamers and deceivers : true stories of the heroes and villains who made America / by Beck, Glenn

Table of Contents: “…Grover Cleveland: the mysterious case of the disappearing president -- I did not kill Armstrong: the war of wills in the early days of radio -- Woodrow Wilson: a masterful stroke of deception -- Streets of gold: Charles Ponzi and the American scheme -- He loved Lucy: the tragic genius of Desi Arnaz, the inventor of the rerun -- The muckracker: how a lost letter revealed Upton Sinclair's deception -- Alan Turing: how the father of the computer saved the world for democracy -- The spy who turned to a pumpkin: Alger Hiss and the liberal establishment that defended a traitor -- The city of tomorrow: Walt Disney's last and lost dream -- "Make it great, John": how Steve Jobs and John Lasseter changed history at Pixar -- Appendix: Letter from Upton Sinclair.…”

Animated landscapes : history, form and function /

Table of Contents: “…Seeing in dreams : the shifting landscapes of drawn animation / Bryan Hawkins -- The stop-motion landscape / Chris Pallant -- Pixar, 'The road to Point Reyes', and the long history of landscapes in new visual technologies / Malcolm Cook -- Australian animation : landscape, isolation and connections / Steven Allen -- Environmentalism and the animated landscape in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) and Princess Mononoke (1997) / Melanie Chan -- Animating Shanshui : Chinese landscapes in animated film, art and performance / Kiu-wai Chu -- Latvian animation : landscapes of resistance / Mihaela Mihailova -- The landscape in the memory : animated travel diaries / María Lorenzo Hernández -- Off the rails : animating train journeys / Birgitta Hosea -- Between setting and character : a taxonomy of sentient spaces in fantasy film / Fran Pheasant-Kelly -- The metamorphosis of place : projection-mapped animation / Dan Torre -- Plasmatic pitches, temporal tracks and conceptual courts : the landscapes of animated sport / Paul Wells -- The zombiefied landscape : World War Z (2013), ParaNorman (2012) and the politics of the animated corpse / James Newton -- Evoking the oracle : visual logic of screen worlds / Tom Klein -- Beyond the animated landscape : videogame glitches and the sublime / Alan Meades.…”

Hayao Miyazaki : exploring the early work of Japan's greatest animator / by Greenberg, Raz

Steve Jobs / by Isaacson, Walter

Table of Contents: “…. -- NeXT: Prometheus unbound -- Pixar: technology meets art -- A regular guy: love is just a four-letter word -- Family man: at home with the Jobs clan -- Toy story: Buzz and Woody to the rescue -- The second coming: what rough beast, its hour come round at last ... -- The restoration: the loser now will be later to win -- Think different: Jobs as iCEO -- Design principles: the studio of Jobs and Ive -- The iMac: hello (again) -- CEO: still crazy after all these years -- Apple stores: genius bars and siena sandstone -- The digital hub: from iTunes to the iPod -- The iTunes store: I'm the Pied Piper -- Music man: the sound track of his life -- Pixar's friends: ... and foes -- Twenty-first-century Macs: setting Apple apart -- Round one: Memento mori -- The iPhone: three revolutionary products in one -- Round two: the cancer recurs -- The iPad: into the post-PC era -- New battles: and echoes of old ones -- To infinity: the cloud, the spaceship, and beyond -- Round three: the twilight struggle -- Legacy: the brightest heaven of invention.…”

A vindication of the redhead : the typology of red hair throughout the literary and visual arts / by Ayres, Brenda, 1953-, Maier, Sarah E. 1968-

Table of Contents: “…: Red-Haired Golems Galore Including Those in Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem -- Tangled Webs of Red Hair from the Grimm Brothers to Kate Morton -- The Other Redheads Throughout Asia and Africa -- Tough Little Red-Headed Orphans: Anne (of Green Gables), Little Orphan Annie, Madeline, and Pippi -- Rebellious Royals: From Disney's Ariel to Pixar's Merida -- Neo-Victorian Freakery: Flaming-Haired Women, Dolls, Art, and Detection -- STEAM(y) and Marvel(ous) Women: Agent Scully, Lisbeth Salander, Beth Harmon and the Black Widow -- Epilogue: The Splitting of Red Hairs.…”

Better living through criticism : how to think about art, pleasure, beauty, and truth / by Scott, A. O., 1966-