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Acknowledgements | |
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Introduction | |
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A Foreword on the Generic Context | |
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The Cartoon-Making Technique | |
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The Story-Board | |
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The Model-Sheet | |
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The Lay-Out | |
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Soudtrack/Offstage | |
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Animation | |
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The Colouring, the Scenery, and the Shooting | |
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The Cartoon Before Tex | |
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Early Animation | |
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Winsor McCay (1869-1934), Father of the Cartoon | |
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Raoul Barre (1874-1932) | |
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Max (1883-1972) and Dave (1894-1979) Fleisher | |
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Pat Sullivan (1887-1933) and Otto Messmer (1892-1983) | |
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Walt Disney (1901-1966) and Ub Iwerks (1901-1971) | |
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Tex Avery (1908-1980) and His Associates: A Cultural Nexus | |
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The Uniqueness of Tex Avery's Testimony | |
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Tex Avery's Americanness: An Attempt to Retrieve the Past | |
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A Hymn to the American Language | |
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Chauvinism: Eulogy or Satire? | |
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Racism, or When Tex Supersedes Avery | |
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Facing Contemporary Politics | |
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The Psychological Consequences of History | |
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The Second World War and Propaganda | |
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The Postwar Greed for Money | |
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Tex Avery's Unique Viewpoint on Good, Evil, and Morality | |
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Violence | |
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Survival | |
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Tex Avery vs. Walt Disney: An Axiological Theme | |
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On Sex and Gender | |
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Freudian Pansexualism: Concepts of Activity/Passivity | |
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Sexual Urges: A Definition of Male Normal Behaviour | |
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Shaping Female Identity or Hollywood's Guilt | |
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Reduction of Womanhood Into Two Types: The Destructive Power of Women | |
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The Sex Symbol | |
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The Anti-Sex Symbol | |
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Male Supremacy | |
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Oedipal Relationships and Their Consequences | |
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Disparaging the Mother | |
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Equating the Lover and the Father Figures | |
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Flawed Relationships | |
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Tex Avery's Unique Comic Strategies | |
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The Burlesque Heritage | |
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Caricature | |
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Excess: The Marx Brothers Syndrome | |
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A Frantic Rhythm | |
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A Pattern of Mannerism | |
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Towards a Pragmatic Relation With the Audience | |
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Structuring a Gag: Circularity and Analepses | |
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A Process of Mise en Abyme | |
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The Provisional Nature of the Averyan Universe | |
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"Cosmos Lost" | |
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The Logic of the Absurd | |
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Conclusion | |
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Filmography - Tex Avery's Cartoons: The MGM Years (1942-1955) | |
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Bibliography/Further reading | |
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Index | |