Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sec. 1. A foreword on the generic context: The cartoon-making technique
  • The cartoon before Tex.
  • Sec. 2. The uniqueness of Text Avery's testimony: Tex Avery's Americanness: an attempt to retrieve the past
  • Facing contemporary politics
  • Tex Avery's unique viewpoint on good, evil, and morality.
  • Sec. 3 On sex and gender: Freudian pansexualism: concepts of activity / passivity
  • Reduction of womanhood into two types: The destructive power of women
  • Oedipal relationships and their consequences
  • Sec. 4. Tex Avery's unique comic strategies: The burlesque heritage
  • Towards a pragmatic relation with the audience
  • The provisional nature of the Averian universe
  • Conclusion.