| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 393 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 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." |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Walt Disney (1901-1966) was one of the most significant creative forces of the twentieth century, a man who made a lasting impact on the art of the animated film, the history of American business, and the evolution of twentieth-century American culture. He was both a creative visionary and a dynamic entrepreneur, roles whose demands he often could not reconcile. In his compelling new biography, noted animation historian Michael Barrier avoids the well-traveled paths of previous biographers, who have tended to portray a blemish-free Disney or to indulge in lurid speculation. Instead, he takes the full measure of the man in his many aspects. A consummate storyteller, Barrier describes how Disney transformed himself from Midwestern farm boy to scrambling young businessman to pioneering artist and, finally, to entrepreneur on a grand scale. Barrier describes in absorbing detail how Disney synchronized sound with animation in Steamboat Willie; created in Snow White and the Seven ... |
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Disney, Walt, 1901-1966.
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Disney, Walt, 1901-1966. (OCoLC)fst00029141
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Animators -- United States -- Biography.
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Animators -- United States.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
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Animators. (OCoLC)fst00809635
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Nonfiction.
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Performing Arts.
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Barrier, J. Michael. Animated man. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 9780520241176 0520241177 (DLC) 2006025506 (OCoLC)70864455 |
| ISBN |
9780520941663 (electronic bk.) |
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0520941667 (electronic bk.) |
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9781429478212 (electronic bk.) |
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1429478217 (electronic bk.) |
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