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Funny pictures

animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood

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331

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Funny pictures: animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood
2011, University of California Press
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Funny Pictures: Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood
2011, University of California Press
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Table of 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Berkeley

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Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/340973
Library of Congress
NC1766.U5 F86 2011, NC1766.U5F86 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 331 p. :
Number of pages
331

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Open Library
OL25045856M
Internet Archive
funnypicturesani00gold
ISBN 13
9780520267237, 9780520267244
LCCN
2011005494
OCLC/WorldCat
701672530

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