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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 | |