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Animating Culture: Hollywood Cartoons from the Sound Era

Animating Culture: Hollywood Cartoons from the Sound Era

Smoodin, Eric

Paperback

Series: Communications, Media, and Culture

Filmmaking

ISBN10: 0813519497
ISBN13: 9780813519494
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
Published: May 1 1993
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.12
Language: English

Long considered children's entertainment by audiences and popular media, Hollywood animation has received little serious attention. Eric Smoodin's Animating Culture is the first and only book to thoroughly analyze the animated short film.

Usually running about seven or eight minutes, cartoons were made by major Hollywood studios--such as MGM, Warner Bros., and Disney--and shown at movie theaters along with a newsreel and a feature-length film. Smoodin explores animated shorta and the system that mass-produced them. How were cartoons exhibited in theaters? How did they tell their stories? Who did they tell them to? What did they say about race, class, and gender? How were cartoons related to the feature films they accompanied on the evening's bill of fare? What were the social functions of cartoon stars like Donald Duck and Minnie Mouse?

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