 | Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution by Michael Rubin
Buy new: $34.95 / Used from: $15.35 Focuses on the role George Lucas has played in moving technology forward...and also on the creation of Pixar.
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 | Inventing The Movies: Hollywood's Epic Battle Between Innovation And The Status Quo, From Thomas Edison To Steve Jobs by Scott Kirsner
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $39.32 Why Hollywood tends to battle (rather than embrace) new technologies, from sound to television to the VCR and the Internet. Lots of movie trivia, too, about people like Walt Disney, the Warner Brothers, Bette Davis, Laurel & Hardy, Bing Crosby, "Tron," and Pixar co-founder John Lasseter. Also includes recent developments like the arrival of the iPod, YouTube, and Netflix.
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 | To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios by Karen Paik
Buy new: $47.25 / Used from: $35.00 Wonderfully illustrated book about how Pixar became the king of the animation jungle.
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 | The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company by David A. Price
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $2.87 A history of Pixar the company. Very inspirational.
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 | The Art of 3-D Computer Animation and Effects, 3rd Edition by Isaac Kerlow
Buy used from: $10.91 A great book for anyone looking to become a "do-er" and get into the business of computer-generated animation.
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 | Disney War by James B. Stewart
Buy used from: $3.59 More recent history of the Walt Disney Company... Stewart got a real inside look, including dressing up in costume and hanging out at the theme parks.
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 | Industrial Light & Magic: Into the Digital Realm by Mark Cotta Vaz
Buy new: $54.00 / Used from: $13.00 The pioneering special effects firm... this book focuses on ILM's more recent work.
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 | Special Effects: An Oral History--Interviews with 37 Masters Spanning 100 Years by Pascal Pinteau
Buy used from: $5.80 Great interviews with the masters!
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 | Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (Vintage) by Neal Gabler
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $6.42 Disney was perhaps the biggest innovator of the 20th century... diving into sound, Technicolor, and television before just about anybody else.
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 | Special Effects: The History and Technique by Richard Rickitt
Buy new: $47.25 / Used from: $55.78 A great history of the art of visual effects... along with profiles of some of the key innovators like Douglas Trumbull, Dennis Muren, Ray Harryhausen, and Willis O'Brien.
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 | Glorious Technicolor: The Movies' Magic Rainbow; Ninetieth Anniversary Edition by Fred E. Basten
Buy new: $43.76 / Used from: $9.93 Well-written history of how Technicolor brought color to the silver screen with movies like "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz."
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 | The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution, 1926-1930 by Mr. Scott Eyman
Buy used from: $14.00 Great book on the arrival of talkies and the making of "The Jazz Singer." Delves into the reasons that Hollywood didn't necessarily want to switch over to making movies with sound.
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 | The Story of Hollywood: An Illustrated History by Gregory Paul Williams
Buy new: $32.97 / Used from: $26.99 Great coffee table book that covers Hollywood's glamorous history.
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 | The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World by Randall E. Stross
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.99 Really enjoyable biography of Edison, who helped launch the movie industry.
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