Seven Minutes The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon

by KLEIN, NORMAN M.

• ISBN13: 9781859841501
• ISBN10: 1859841503
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-05-17
• Publisher: Verso

Summary

'A genuine depth of knowledge, prodigious research, breath of ambition and sheer love of cartoondoom leap from every page. Norman Klein has written a volume which should be on every toon fan's bookshelf.' Sight and Sound

Author Biography

Norman M. Klein is a critic and historian of mass culture, editor of Fragile Moments: A History of Media-Induced Experience, and author of Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon from Verso. He teaches at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
The American Theatrical Cartoon, 1928-63	p. 1
Graphic Narrative: 1928	p. 3
The Gag	p. 19
Story	p. 32
Marketing: Mickey Becomes a Logo, 1930-34	p. 53
Fleischer: Cities, Machines, and Immigrant Life	p. 59
The World Upside Down: 1930-33	p. 68
Machina Versatilis: How the Cartoon Pays Homage to the Machine	p. 75
What Makes Betty Boop?	p. 81
How Money Talks in Cartoons	p. 91
Intermission: A Summary of Where Cartoons Go after 1943	p. 106
Transition toward Full Animation: 1936	p. 110
Depression Melodrama: Story	p. 122
The Whiteness of Snow White	p. 139
Full Animation: Putting Clouds into Exterior Scenes	p. 146
Production: 1940	p. 156
The Chase Cartoon: Machina Versatilis	p. 162
The Advantages of Being Boneless and Incomplete: Daffy Duck (1937-42) and the Zip-Crash School	p. 172
Citizen Kane, the Cartoon: Screwball Noir, 1941-46	p. 181
The Anarchy of Wartime Chase Cartoons: Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs	p. 186
1947: Roger Rabbit Then and Now	p. 200
Chase Cartoons after 1947: Consumer Graphics	p. 206
Villains and Victims: Timing the Chase	p. 218
Back to the Animated Line: UPA and the Fifties	p. 229
From One Screen to the Other: Hanna-Barbera	p. 243
Conclusion: Felix the Cathedral Meets the Swan Hotel	p. 247
Notes	p. 255
Index	p. 274
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