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Funny pictures : animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood
- Title
- Funny pictures : animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood / edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
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- Description
- viii, 331 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: what makes these pictures so funny? / Charlie Keil and Daniel Goldmark -- Part One. The (filmic) roots of early animation. The Chaplin effect: ghosts in the machine and animated gags / Paul Wells -- 2. 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 -- Part Three. 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 -- Part Four. 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 -- Part Five. 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.
- Call Number
- MFL 11-7982
- ISBN
- 9780520267237 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 0520267230 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 9780520267244 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 0520267249 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2011005494
- OCLC
- YBP 2011005494
- Title
- Funny pictures : animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood / edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Goldmark, Daniel.Keil, Charlie.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 11-7982