00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-1685474870047033013 Buklod 20250408143741.0 ta r |||| u| ta 250408s1980 nyua rb 001 0 eng 0525476393 (paperback) 393556 DLC DMC rda eng eng NC 1766 U5 A447 1980 The American animated cartoon a critical anthology edited by Danny Peary and Gerald Peary. New York E.P. Dutton c1980. [x], 310 pages illustrations 23 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographies (pages 296-300), contributors (301-302) and index (pages 303-310). This anthology presents a loosely conceived "auteurist" ladder of cartoon production, with such estimable figures as Winsor McCay, Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Vlad Tytla, and Max Fleischer catapulting instantly into the pantheon; they are challenged by other animation giants such as Art Babbitt, Ralph Bakshi, Bob Clampett, Otto Messmer, and John Hubley. If we utilize Andrew Sarri's provocative categories in The American Cinema (1968), are not Ub Iwerks, Robert McKimson, and Bob Cannon all Expressive Esoterica? And Frank Tashlin too, as much for his Warners Porky Pigs as for his live-action Jerry Lewis pictures? Perhaps the more impersonal Walter Lantz and Riz Freleng and early Hanna-Barbera are metteurs, or skilled artisans, instead of true auteurs. Fifteen articles were prepared especially for this book. Only two essays have been anthologized. Although The American Animated Cartoon celebrate its subject, we also keep in mind that cartoons shape consciousness, just as any film genre does; and animators are responsible to charges of gratuitous violence, racism, or sexism. The feminist critique by Sybil DelGaudio, "Seduced and Reduced: Female Animal Characters in Some Warners' Cartoons," is a role model study that prefigures more careful scrutiny--political, ideological, semiological, psychoanalytic--of animated films to come. On the same point, it is foolish to regard animation studios, businesses all, as repositories of fairy-tale, utopian values. In order to encourage an unclouded and non-nostalgic perspective on cartoon animation, we include two key historical pieces: a report on the labor strike at the Fleischer factory, and Walt Disney's testimony alleging Communist infiltration of Hollywood, delivered voluntarily before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. A gift of Ms. Jane Hofileña. Animated films United States History and criticism. Peary, Danny 1949- editor. Peary, Gerald editor. Book. FO UPD DMC NC 1766 U5 A447 1980 Book