Hollywood Cartoons American Animation in Its Golden Age

Name: Hollywood Cartoons American Animation in Its Golden Age
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ISBN: 9780195037593

ISBN-10: 0195037596

ISBN-13: 9780195037593

Edition: 1999

Authors: Michael Barrier

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In Hollywood Cartoons, Michael Barrier takes us on a glorious guided tour of American animation in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, to meet the legendary artists and entrepreneurs who created Bugs Bunny, Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, Wile E. Coyote, Donald Duck, Tom and Jerry, and many other cartoon favorites. Beginning with black-and-white silent cartoons, Barrier offers an insightful account, taking us inside early New York studios and such Hollywood giants as Disney, Warner Bros., and MGM. Barrier excels at illuminating the creative side of animation--revealing how stories are put together, how animators develop a character, how technical innovations enhance the "realism" of cartoons. Here too are…

Book details

List price: $72.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/8/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 672
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.30" long x 2.10" tall
Weight: 2.420
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


About the "Flip Books,"


Introduction



Cartoon Acting



Beginnings, 1911-1930


"Flip Book": Rubber-hose Animation



Disney, 1930-1933



Disney, 1933-1936



Disney's Rivals, 1928-1937



Disney, 1936-1938



Disney, 1938-1941


"Flip Book": Stretch and Squash



Declines and Falls, 1937-1942



Cartoon Reality



Warner Bros., 1933-1940



The Disney Diaspora, 1942-1950



MGM, 1939-1952



Warner Bros., 1941-1945


"Flip Book": Smear Animation



Warner Bros., 1945-1953



UPA, 1944-1952



The Iris Closes, 1952-1966


Afterword


Notes


Index