Funny pictures : animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood /
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: what makes these pictures so funny? / Charlie Keil and Daniel Goldmark
- Part One. The (filmic) roots of early animation. 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
- The heir apparent / J. B. Kaufman
- Systems and effects: making cartoons funny. Infectious laughter: cartoons' cure for the Depression / Don Crafton
- "We're happy when we're sad": comedy, gags, and 1930s cartoon narration / Richard Neupert
- Laughter by numbers: the science of comedy at the Walt Disney Studio / Susan Ohmer
- Part Three. Retheorizing animated comedy. "Who dat say who dat?" racial masquerade, humor, and the rise of American animation / Nicholas Sammond
- "I like to sock myself in the face": reconsidering "vulgar modernism" / Henry Jenkins
- Auralis sexualis: how cartoons conduct Paraphilia / Philip Brophy
- Part Four. Comic inspiration: animation auteurs. The art of diddling: slapstick, science, and antimodernism in the films of Charley Bowers / Rob King
- Tex Avery's prison house of animation, or humor and boredom in studio cartoons / Scott Curtis
- Tish-Tash in cartoonland / Ethan de Seife
- Part Five. Beyond the studio era: building on tradition. Sounds funny/funny sounds: theorizing cartoon music / Daniel Goldmark
- The revival of the studio-era cartoon in the 1990s / Linda Simensky.