Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-gardeVerso, 2002 - 344 páginas With ruminations on drawing, color and caricature, on the political meaning of fairy-tales, talking animals and human beings as machines, Hollywood Flatlands brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism. Focusing on the work of aesthetic and political revolutionaries of the inter-war period, Esther Leslie reveals how the animation of commodities can be studied as a journey into modernity in cinema. She looks afresh at the links between the Soviet Constructivists and the Bauhaus, for instance, and those between Walter Benjamin and cinematic abstraction. She also provides new interpretations of the writings of Siegfried Kracauer on animation, shows how Theodor Adorno's and Max Horkheimer's film viewing affected their intellectual development, and reconsiders Sergei Eisenstein's famous handshake with Mickey Mouse at Disney's Hyperion Studios in 1930. 10 color and 30 b/w photographs. |
Conteúdo
experimental | 1 |
drawing and the european avantgarde | 33 |
mickey mouse utopia and walter benjamin | 80 |
deutschamerikanische freundschaft | 123 |
eyecandy and adornos silly sympHonies | 158 |
siegfried kracauer dumbo and class struggle | 200 |
eisenstein shakes mickeys hand in hollywood | 219 |
technecolour | 251 |
a flat ending | 289 |
notes | 301 |
331 | |
acknowledgements | 338 |
339 | |
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