Seven Minutes The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon

Name: Seven Minutes The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon
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ISBN: 9781859841501

ISBN-10: 1859841503

ISBN-13: 9781859841501

Edition: 1996

Authors: Norman M. Klein

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This is a history of perception, of the imagery used to identify how audiences remembered their daily life, a social history that emerges through cartoon images. The title derives from the fact that the average cartoon runs approximately seven minutes.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 5/17/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface


The American Theatrical Cartoon, 1928-63



Graphic Narrative: 1928



The Gag



Story



Marketing: Mickey Becomes a Logo, 1930-34



Fleischer: Cities, Machines, and Immigrant Life



The World Upside Down: 1930-33



Machina Versatilis: How the Cartoon Pays Homage to the Machine



What Makes Betty Boop?



How Money Talks in Cartoons


Intermission: A Summary of Where Cartoons Go after 1943



Transition toward Full Animation: 1936



Depression Melodrama: Story



The Whiteness of Snow White



Full Animation: Putting Clouds into Exterior Scenes



Production: 1940



The Chase Cartoon: Machina Versatilis



The Advantages of Being Boneless and Incomplete: Daffy Duck (1937-42) and the Zip-Crash School



Citizen Kane, the Cartoon: Screwball Noir, 1941-46



The Anarchy of Wartime Chase Cartoons: Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs



1947: Roger Rabbit Then and Now



Chase Cartoons after 1947: Consumer Graphics



Villains and Victims: Timing the Chase



Back to the Animated Line: UPA and the Fifties



From One Screen to the Other: Hanna-Barbera


Conclusion: Felix the Cathedral Meets the Swan Hotel


Notes


Index