Funny pictures: animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood

Abstract

List of Figures Introduction: What Makes These Pictures So Funny? Charlie Keil and Daniel Goldmark Part One. The (Filmic) Roots of Early Animation 1. The Chaplin Effect: Ghosts in the Machine and Animated Gags Paul Wells 2. Polyphony and Heterogeneity in Early Fleischer Films: Comic Strips, Vaudeville, and the New York Style Mark Langer 3. The Heir Apparent J. B. Kaufman Part Two. Systems and Effects: Making Cartoons Funny 4. Infectious Laughter: Cartoons' Cure for the Depression Don Crafton 5. Happy When We're Sad: Comedy, Gags, and 1930s Cartoon Narration Richard Neupert 6. Laughter by Numbers: The Science of Comedy at the Walt Disney Studio Susan Ohmer Part Three. Retheorizing Animated Comedy 7. Dat Say Who Dat? Racial Masquerade, Humor, and the Rise of American Animation Nicholas Sammond 8. I Like to Sock Myself in the Face: Reconsidering Vulgar Modernism Henry Jenkins 9. Auralis Sexualis: How Cartoons Conduct Paraphilia Philip Brophy Part Four. Comic Inspiration: Animation Auteurs 10. The Art of Diddling: Slapstick, Science, and Antimodernism in the Films of Charley Bowers Rob King 11. Tex Avery's Prison House of Animation, or Humor and Boredom in Studio Cartoons Scott Curtis 12. Tish-Tash in Cartoonland Ethan de Seife Part Five. Beyond the Studio Era: Building on Tradition 13. Sounds Funny/Funny Sounds: Theorizing Cartoon Music Daniel Goldmark 14. The Revival of the Studio-Era Cartoon in the 1990s Linda Simensky Bibliography List of Contributors Index