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Funny pictures: animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood
Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil-
Frontmatter
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List of Figures (page vii)
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Introduction: What Makes These Pictures So Funny? (Charlie Keil and Daniel Goldmark, page 1)
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PART ONE. THE (FILMIC) ROOTS OF EARLY ANIMATION
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1. The Chaplin Effect: Ghosts in the Machine and Animated Gags (Paul Wells, page 15)
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2. Polyphony and Heterogeneity in Early Fleischer Films: Comic Strips, Vaudeville, and the New York Style (Mark Langer, page 29)
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3. The Heir Apparent (J.B. Kaufman, page 51)
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PART TWO. SYSTEMS AND EFFECTS: MAKING CARTOONS FUNNY
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4. Infectious Laughter: Cartoons' Cure for the Depression (Donald Crafton, page 69)
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5. "We're Happy When We're Sad": Comedy, Gags, and 1930s Cartoon Narration (Richard Neupert, page 93)
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6. Laughter by Numbers: The Science of Comedy at the Walt Disney Studio (Susan Ohmer, page 109)
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PART THREE. RETHEORIZING ANIMATED COMEDY
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7. "Who Dat Say Who Dat?": Racial Masquerade, Humor, and the Rise of American Animation (Nicholas Sammond, page 129)
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8. "I Like to Sock Myself in the Face": Reconsidering "Vulgar Modernism" (Henry Jenkins, page 153)
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9. Auralis Sexualis: How Cartoons Conduct Paraphilia (Philip Brophy, page 175)
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PART FOUR. COMIC INSPIRATION: ANIMATION AUTEURS
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10. The Art of Diddling: Slapstick, Science, and Antimodernism in the Films of Charley Bowers (Rob King, page 191)
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11. Tex Avery's Prison House of Animation, or Humor and Boredom in Studio Cartoons (Scott Curtis, page 211)
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12. Tish-Tash in Cartoonland (Ethan de Seife, page 228)
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PART FIVE. BEYOND THE STUDIO ERA: BUILDING ON TRADITION
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13. Sounds Funny/Funny Sounds: Theorizing Cartoon Music (Daniel Goldmark, page 257)
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14. The Revival of the Studio-Era Cartoon in the 1990s (Linda Simensky, page 272)
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Bibliography (page 293)
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List of Contributors (page 311)
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Index (page 315)
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Published: c2011
Publisher: University of California Press
- 9780520267237 (hardcover)
- 9780520950122 (ebook)
- 9780520267244 (paper)