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Hollywood Cartoons American Animation in Its Golden Age

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ISBN-10: 0195167295

ISBN-13: 9780195167290

Edition: 2003

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…    
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Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/6/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 672
Size: 9.17" wide x 6.14" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 1.980
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