Funny pictures
Subtitle: animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood
By: edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780520267237; 9780520267244
Subjects: Animated films; Wit and humor in motion pictures; History and criticism
Description: This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from film's early days through to the 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: what makes these pictures so funny? / Charlie Keil and Daniel Goldmark; title: Part One. The (filmic) roots of early animation. The Chaplin effect: ghosts in the machine and animated gags / Paul Wells; title: 2. Polyphony and heterogeneity in early Fleischer films: comic strips, vaudeville, and the New York style / Mark Langer; title: The heir apparent / J. B. Kaufman; title: Systems and effects: making cartoons funny. Infectious laughter: cartoons' cure for the Depression / Don Crafton; title: "We're happy when we're sad": comedy, gags, and 1930s cartoon narration / Richard Neupert; title: Laughter by numbers: the science of comedy at the Walt Disney Studio / Susan Ohmer; title: Part Three. Retheorizing animated comedy. "Who dat say who dat?" racial masquerade, humor, and the rise of American animation / Nicholas Sammond; title: "I like to sock myself in the face": reconsidering "vulgar modernism" / Henry Jenkins; title: Auralis sexualis: how cartoons conduct Paraphilia / Philip Brophy; title: Part Four. Comic inspiration: animation auteurs. The art of diddling: slapstick, science, and antimodernism in the films of Charley Bowers / Rob King; title: Tex Avery's prison house of animation, or humor and boredom in studio cartoons / Scott Curtis; title: Tish-Tash in cartoonland / Ethan de Seife; title: Part Five. Beyond the studio era: building on tradition. Sounds funny/funny sounds: theorizing cartoon music / Daniel Goldmark; title: The revival of the studio-era cartoon in the 1990s / Linda Simensky.