Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 586 g
Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 586 g
ISBN: 978-0-520-26723-7
Verlag: University of California Press
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Figures
Introduction: What Makes These Pictures So Funny?
Charlie Keil and Daniel Goldmark
Part One. The (Filmic) Roots of Early Animation
1. 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
3. The Heir Apparent
J. B. Kaufman
Part Two. Systems and Effects: Making Cartoons Funny
4. Infectious Laughter: Cartoons' Cure for the Depression
Don Crafton
5. "We're Happy When We're Sad": Comedy, Gags, and 1930s Cartoon Narration
Richard Neupert
6. Laughter by Numbers: The Science of Comedy at the Walt Disney Studio
Susan Ohmer
Part Three. Retheorizing Animated Comedy
7. "Who Dat Say Who Dat?" Racial Masquerade, Humor, and the Rise of American Animation
Nicholas Sammond
8. "I Like to Sock Myself in the Face": Reconsidering "Vulgar Modernism"
Henry Jenkins
9. Auralis Sexualis: How Cartoons Conduct Paraphilia
Philip Brophy
Part Four. Comic Inspiration: Animation Auteurs
10. The Art of Diddling: Slapstick, Science, and Antimodernism in the Films of Charley Bowers
Rob King
11. Tex Avery's Prison House of Animation, or Humor and Boredom in Studio Cartoons
Scott Curtis
12. Tish-Tash in Cartoonland
Ethan de Seife
Part Five. Beyond the Studio Era: Building on Tradition
13. Sounds Funny/Funny Sounds: Theorizing Cartoon Music
Daniel Goldmark
14. The Revival of the Studio-Era Cartoon in the 1990s
Linda Simensky
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index