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Funny Pictures
Funny Pictures

Chapters in this book (21)

Frontmatter
Contents
Figures
Introduction: What Makes These Pictures So Funny?
Part One. The (Filmic) Roots of Early Animation
1. The Chaplin Effect: Ghosts in the Machine and Animated Gags
2. Polyphony and Heterogeneity in Early Fleischer Films: Comic Strips, Vaudeville, and the New York Style
3. The Heir Apparent
Part Two. Systems and Effects: Making Cartoons Funny
4. Infectious Laughter: Cartoons’ Cure for the Depression
5. “We’re Happy When We’re Sad”: Comedy, Gags, and 1930s Cartoon Narration
6. Laughter by Numbers: The Science of Comedy at the Walt Disney Studio
Part Three. Retheorizing Animated Comedy
7. “Who Dat Say Who Dat?”: Racial Masquerade, Humor, and the Rise of American Animation
8. “I Like to Sock Myself in the Face”: Reconsidering “Vulgar Modernism”
9. Auralis Sexualis How Cartoons Conduct Paraphilia
Part Four. Comic Inspiration: Animation Auteurs
10. The Art of Diddling: Slapstick, Science, and Antimodernism in the Films of Charley Bowers
11. Tex Avery’s Prison House of Animation, or Humor and Boredom in Studio Cartoons
12. Tish-Tash in Cartoonland
Part Five. Beyond the Studio Era: Building on Tradition
13. Sounds Funny / Funny Sounds: Theorizing Cartoon Music
14. The Revival of the Studio-Era Cartoon in the 1990s
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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