Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde - Paperback

$29.95

Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde - Paperback

Name: Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde - Paperback
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SKU: 9781844675043
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by Esther Leslie

$29.95

Book Overview

With ruminations on drawing, colour 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.

ISBN	9781844675043
Author	Esther Leslie
Publisher	Verso
Genre	Education and Arts
Format	Paperback
Published	October 2009
Language	ENG- English
Pages	362
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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