Funny pictures : animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood /

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This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom's earliest days through the twentieth century. Written by a who's who of animation authorities, Funny pictures offers a stimulating range of views on why animation became associate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Goldmark, Daniel (Editor ), Keil, Charlie (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2011.
Colección:ACLS Fellows' Publications.
Temas:
Animated films > United States > History and criticism.
Wit and humor in motion pictures.
Humour au cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS > Animation.
Animated films
Wit and humor in motion pictures
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: what makes these pictures so funny? / Charlie Keil and Daniel Goldmark
  • The (filmic) roots of early animation. The Chaplin effect: ghosts in the machine and animated gags / Paul Wells
  • Polyphony and heterogeneity in early Fleischer films: comic strips, vaudeville, and the New York style / Mark Langer
  • The heir apparent / J.B. Kaufman
  • Systems and effects: making cartoons funny. Infectious laughter: cartoons' cure for the Depression / Don Crafton
  • "We're happy when we're sad": comedy, gags, and 1930s cartoon narration / Richard Neupert
  • Laughter by numbers: the science of comedy at the Walt Disney Studio / Susan Ohmer
  • Retheorizing animated comedy. "Who dat say who dat?" racial masquerade, humor, and the rise of American animation / Nicholas Sammond
  • "I like to sock myself in the face": reconsidering "vulgar modernism" / Henry Jenkins
  • Auralis sexualis: how cartoons conduct Paraphilia / Philip Brophy
  • Comic inspiration: animation auteurs. The art of diddling: slapstick, science, and antimodernism in the films of Charley Bowers / Rob King
  • Tex Avery's prison house of animation, or humor and boredom in studio cartoons / Scott Curtis
  • Tish-Tash in cartoonland / Ethan de Seife
  • Beyond the studio era: building on tradition. Sounds funny/funny sounds: theorizing cartoon music / Daniel Goldmark
  • The revival of the studio-era cartoon in the 1990s / Linda Simensky.

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