The idea hunter : how to find the best ideas and make them happen / by Boynton, Andrew C.

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Communication theory and millennial popular culture : essays and applications /

Table of Contents: “…Hickly III -- Understanding epideictic rhetoric with the help of fantasy literature / Kathleen Glenister Roberts -- Winning isn't everything : credibility, leadership, and virtue in HBO's Game of Thrones / Elena Strauman -- Culture -- "Let it go, let it go" : hegemony and counter-hegemony in disney's frozen / Janelle Applequist -- Mockingjays and silent salutes : introducing semiotics through the hunger games / Claudia Bucciferro -- Understanding stuart hall's encoding/decoding model through TV's breaking bad / Garret Castleberry -- Postmodern theory and hip-hop cultural discourse / Hunter Fine -- Seen but not heard : muted group theory in Pixar's the incredibles, wall-e, and brave / Bruce Finklea and Sally Hardig -- Knope v. …”

Loonshots : how to nurture the crazy ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and transform industries / by Bahcall, Safi

Disney culture / by Wills, John, 1971-

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The Power of Asking Pivotal Questions / by Krupp, Steven, Schoemaker, Paul

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Classical traditions in modern fantasy /

Table of Contents: “…Rogers -- Filthy harpies and fictive knowledge in Philip Pullman's Dark materials trilogy / Antonia Syson -- Girls in bears' clothing in Greek mythology and Disney/Pixar's brave / Elizabeth Manwell -- (Post)modern fantasies of antiquity -- Fantasies of Mimnermos in Anne Carson's "The brainsex paintings" (Plainwater) / Sasha-Mae Eccleston -- Aeneas' American new world in Jo Graham's Black ships / Jennifer A. …”

Homer Simpson ponders politics : popular culture as political theory /

Table of Contents: “…Peterson ; Nietzschean narratives of hero and herd in Walt Disney / Pixar's The Incredibles / C. Heike Schotten ; Muggles, magic and misfits : Michel Foucault at Harry Potter's Hogwarts / Jamie Warner ; Feminism, sexism, and the small screen : television's complicated relationship with women / Denise Du Vernay -- The promises and problems of liberal democracy. …”
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Literary Conceptualizations of Growth : Metaphors and cognition in adolescent literature / by Trites, Roberta Seelinger, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Scripts and stereotypical knowledge in American Born ChineseMemory, perception, emotion and Margaret Mahy's Memory; Causality, scripts, and Thirteen Reasons Why; Conclusion; Blending and cultural narratives; Blending; Blending in a cool moonlight; Cultural narratives as cognitive blends; Cultural narratives and embodied metaphors in Shusterman's Unwind; Primary and complex metaphors, blending, and cultural narratives in Njunjul the Sun; Conclusion; A case study; Maturity and causality; The Pixar maturity formula; Up and Being-towards-death; Toy Story 3, separation anxiety, and control.…”
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Table lands : food in children's literature / by Keeling, Kara K., Pollard, Scott T.

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Every tool's a hammer : life is what you make it / by Savage, Adam

Portrayals of children in popular culture : fleeting images /

Table of Contents: “…: girl power and commodification in teen magazines / Caryn Murphy -- Children and media in parenting magazines / Amy Franzini -- Making kids sexy : sexualized youth, adult anxieties and Abercrombie and Fitch / Stephen Gennaro -- Configuring childhood on the web / Katie Elson Anderson -- Television -- Pearly whites : the imagery of teeth in Peter Pan, elite figure skating, gymnastics, and toddler beauty pageants / Beth Nardella -- Conceptualizing childhood in the Korean education the korean education broadcasting system (EBS) : a critical analysis of Pororo / LENA LEE -- Accidental deaths : the violence of representing childhood in law and order : special victims unit / MORGAN GENEVIEVE BLUE -- Better multiculturalism through technology : Dora the explorer and the training of the preschool viewer(s) / Drew Chappell -- Film -- Making mischief of one kind or another : turning literary rebellion into film reminiscence in where the wild things are / Michelle Ann Abate -- They don't really care what happens to me : divorce, family life and children's emotional worlds in 1950s' British cinema / Janet Fink -- Representations of children in Pixar films : / 1995-2008 / Iris Shepard -- Little Burton Blue : Tim Burton and the product(ion) of color in the fairy tale films the nightmare before Christmas (1993) and the corpse bride (2005) / Debbie Olson -- Childhood in war and violence : turtles can fly and the kite runner / Lan Dong -- Spelling out racial difference : moving beyond the inspirational discourses in Akeelah and the bee / Kathryn E. …”
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Race and gender in electronic media : content, context, culture /

Table of Contents: “…Race and gender in electronic media: perennial challenges and opportunities -- Part I: Content: Race and sex in prime time: five decades of research -- Frames of the Olympic host: media coverage of Russia's anti-gay legislation -- Uniquely glee: transing racialized gender -- The challenge of warrior women: gender, race, and militarism in media -- Nurturing new men and polishing imperfect fathers via heter- and homosocial relationships in Pixar Films -- The blind gaze of the zombie normalizes the landscape: killing off inequalities when walking among the undead -- Part II: Context: Audiences, effects, reception: Manipulating race and gender in media effects research: a methodological review using the media FIT taxonomy -- Portrayals of Latinos in the media and the effects of exposure on Latino and non-Latino audiences -- Understanding how the internet and social media accelerate racial sterotyping and social division: the socially mediated sterotyping model -- Our country, our language, our server: xenophobic and racist discourse in league of legends -- #If they gunned me down: postmodern media criticism in a post-racial world -- The democratic potential of feminist twitter -- Producing sexual cultures and pseudonymous publics with digital networks -- Islamic fashion images on instagram and the visuality of Muslim women -- Part III: Culture: media industries, policy, production: Women's access to media: legal dimensions of ownership and employment in the United States -- Second class netizens: race and the emerging mobile internet underclass -- "Damseling for dollars": toxic technocultures and geek masculinity -- This week in blackness and the construction of blackness in independent digital media -- Problems and prospects of Spanish language television broadcasting in the United States -- Ethical sensitivity assessment in educational settings: examining awareness of ethical issues related to media and diversity -- Index.…”
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Petrocultures : oil, politics, culture /

Table of Contents: “…The Implications of Hyperobjects for Anti-Statist Politics -- PART TWO: AMERICAN PETRO-IMAGINARIES: MODERNISM AND AUTOMOBILITY -- 5 Behind the Closet Door: Pixar and Petro-Literacy -- 6 "Made for Mankind": Cars, Cosmetics, and the Petrocultural Feminine -- 7 Oil Tragedy as Modern Genre -- 8 Where Is the Oil in Modernism? …”
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Disney and philosophy : truth, trust, and a little bit of pixie dust /

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A history of three-dimensional cinema / by Cook, David A.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Post-2009 Digital 3D, mainly live-action -- Post-2009 Disney and/or Pixar Computer Animation -- Disney live-action/ photorealistic CGI remakes of Disney animated classics -- Selected Bibliography -- Index…”
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Understanding digital cinema : a professional handbook /

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Locating the voice in film : critical approaches and global practices /

Table of Contents: “…Colleen Montgomery, Double Doublage: Vocal Performance in the French Dubbed Versions of Pixar's Toy Story and Cars -- 6. Rayna Denison, Anime's Star Voices: Voice Actor (Seiyu) Performance and Stardom in Japan -- 7. …”

SIGGRAPH video review HD,

Table of Contents: “…Issue 175, Electronic Theater: Estefan - Brigham Young University (6:38) Student Prize -- How to eat your apple - Pixar Animation Studios (1:28) Jury Prize -- Project Photofly - Rumble Studios (1:12) -- Of Monsters and Men 'Little Talks' - WeWereMonkeys (4:14) -- OH SHEEP! …”

The Mouse and the Myth : Sacred Art and Secular Ritual of Disneyland. by Koehler, Dorene

Table of Contents: “…The 10th Anniversary SpecialDancing with Heresy in Fantasyland; Mickey's 'Hood; When Tomorrowland Becomes Yesterdayland; The Disneyfication of the Golden State; Disney, You've Got a Friend in Pixar!; A Whole New (La La) Land: Renewing Walt's Los Angeles; Disneyland in the Digital Age; Epilogue To the Diamond Celebration and Beyond: Disneyland at 60; Shining, Shimmering Merchandise; Blasts from the Past, Into the Future; Renewing Opulence; A Long Time Ago in A Disneyland Far Far Away; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Blender 3D Basics. by Fisher, Gordon

Table of Contents: “…(Triple I) 1982 demo reel; What just happened?; Introducing Pixar -- 1984, and everything comes together; Time for action -- searching for the video of The Adventures of André and Wally B; What just happened?…”
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