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Author Barrier, J. Michael.

Title The animated man : a life of Walt Disney / Michael Barrier.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  791 D632Bb 2007    ---  Available
Description xviii, 393 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-377) and index.
Contents Introduction : "It's all me" -- "The pet in the family" : on the farm and in the city, 1901-1923 -- "A cute idea" : the self-taught filmmaker, 1923-1928 -- "You've got to really be Minnie" : building a better mouse, 1928-1933 -- "This character was a live person" : the leap to feature films, 1934-1938 -- "A drawing factory" : ambition's price, 1938-1941 -- "A queer, quick, delightful gink" : on a treadmill, 1941-1947 -- "Caprices and spurts of childishness" : escaping from animation, 1947-1953 -- "He was interested in something else" : escaping from film, 1953-1959 -- "This is where I am happy" : restless in the Magic Kingdom, 1959-1965 -- "He drove himself right up to the end" : dreaming of a nightmare city, 1965-1966 -- Afterword : "Let's never not be a silly company".
Subject Disney, Walt, 1901-1966.
Animators -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 9780520241176 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520241177 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 2508565

 
    
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