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Funny Pictures: Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood
Keil C Goldmark D
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Description for Funny Pictures: Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood
Paperback. A collection of essays that explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom's earliest days through the twentieth century. It analyzes many of the key filmic texts from the studio years that exemplify animated comedy. Editor(s): Goldmark, Daniel; Keil, Charlie. Num Pages: 344 pages, 30 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490. Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood. 344 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Goldmark, Daniel; Keil, Charlie. A collection of essays that explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom's earliest days through the twentieth century. It analyzes many of the key filmic texts from the studio years that exemplify animated comedy. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: APFV. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 22. Weight: 480.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520267244
SKU
V9780520267244
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About Keil C Goldmark D
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).
Reviews for Funny Pictures: Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood
"Anyone seeking understanding of the ... legacy of Charlie Chaplin, or the sound of funny should read this book, stand up, and cheer."
T. Lindvall Choice "Lucid and readable, and as likely to be appreciated by general film enthusiasts as well as high falutin' ivory-tower types." Examiner.com "[An] eloquent assembly of analyses." Quarterly Review Of Film & Video
T. Lindvall Choice "Lucid and readable, and as likely to be appreciated by general film enthusiasts as well as high falutin' ivory-tower types." Examiner.com "[An] eloquent assembly of analyses." Quarterly Review Of Film & Video