Book review: Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster AestheticsTurnockJulie A, Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics, New York: Columbia University Press, 2015: 362 pp.: ISBN 978 0 231163521 (hbk) £90; ISBN 978 0 231163538 (pbk) £27; ISBN 978 0 231535274 (e-book) £14.
Book review: Pixar with Lacan: The Hysteric's Guide to AnimationRösingLilian Munk, Pixar with Lacan: The Hysteric's Guide to Animation, Bloomsbury Academic: London, 2015: 192 pp., 15 b/w illus.: ISBN 978 1 628920611.
Book review: Pixar's America: The Re-Animation of American Myths and SymbolsMeinelDietmar, Pixar's America: The Re-Animation of American Myths and Symbols, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016: 240 pp.: ISBN 978 3 31931633 8, £60 (hbk).
Book review: Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination: Animation, Storytelling, and Digital CultureHerhuthEric, Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination: Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017: 256 pp.: ISBN 9780520292567, $29.95 (pbk).