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Funny pictures: animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood

Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil c2011 © University of California Press
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  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520267237 (hardcover)
  • 9780520267244 (paper)
  • 9780520950122 (ebook)
Subject
  • Film & Media Studies
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  • Table of Contents

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