Goldmark / Keil Funny Pictures

Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-520-95012-2
Verlag: University of California Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom’s earliest days through the twentieth century. Written by a who’s who of animation authorities,
Funny Pictures offers a stimulating range of views on why animation became associated with comedy so early and so indelibly, and illustrates how animation and humor came together at a pivotal stage in the development of the motion picture industry. To examine some of the central assumptions about comedy and cartoons and to explore the key factors that promoted their fusion, the book analyzes many of the key filmic texts from the studio years that exemplify animated comedy.
Funny Pictures also looks ahead to show how this vital American entertainment tradition still thrives today in works ranging from
The Simpsons to the output of Pixar.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldmark, Daniel Ira

Keil, Charles

Über Autor(innen)

Goldmark, Daniel Ira
Daniel Goldmark is Associate Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University and the author of Tunes for ‘Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon (UC Press). Charlie Keil is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto and the author of Early American Cinema in Transition and American Cinema’s Transitional Era (UC Press).