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Author:   Daniel Ira Goldmark ,  Charles Keil
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780520267244

ISBN 10:   0520267249
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   21 July 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

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 20111201 Lucid and readable, and as likely to be appreciated by general film enthusiasts as well as high falutin' ivory-tower types. Examiner.com 20111107 [An] eloquent assembly of analyses. Quarterly Review Of Film & Video 20120413

Anyone seeking understanding ... the sound of funny should read this book, stand up, and cheer. --Choice Lucid and readable, and as likely to be appreciated by general film enthusiasts as well as high falutin' ivory-tower types. --Examiner.com

Anyone seeking understanding ... the sound of funny should read this book, stand up, and cheer. --Choice

Author Information

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).

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