Table of Contents
Introduction (Noel Brown, Newcastle University, UK, Susan Smith, University of Sunderland, UK, and Sam Summers, University of Sunderland, UK)
1. Toy Story, Pixar and Contemporary Hollywood (Peter Krämer, University of East Anglia, UK)
2. Toy Story and the Hollywood Family Film (Noel Brown, Newcastle University, UK)
3. The Cowboy, the Spaceman, and the Guru: Character and Convention in the Screenwriting of Toy Story (Andrew Gay, Southern Oregon University, USA)
4. New and Inherited Aesthetics: Designing for the Toy Story Trilogy One Film at a Time (Heather Holian, University of North Carolina, USA)
5. Rough and Smooth: The Everyday Textures of Toy Story (Lucy Fife Donaldson, University of St Andrews, UK)
6. Toying with performance: Toy Story, Virtual Puppetry and Computer-Animated Film Acting(Christopher Holliday, King's College, London, UK)
7. Toy Stories Through Song: Pixar, Randy Newman and the Sublimated Film Musical (Susan Smith, University of Sunderland, UK)
8. Toys as a Site of Intertextuality (Sam Summers, University of Sunderland, UK)
9. Fear, Guilt and the Future of Play in Toy Story (Karen Cross, University of Roehampton, UK)
10. Mirrors and Shadows: Duality, Illusion and the Divided Self in Toy Story (Jane Batkin, University of Lincoln, UK)
11. Woody, Buzz and the Koons Corollary… Or Why Toy Story is Art (Paul Wells, Longborough University, UK)
12. Story is King: Understanding the Toy Story Franchise as an Allegory for the Studio Narrative of Pixar Animation (Helen Haswell, Queen's University Belfast, UK)
13. An Interview with Steve Segal (Noel Brown, Newcastle University, UK)
A Guide to Further Research
Contributors
Bibliography
Filmography