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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Esther LesliePublish date:2004-06-17Pages:362
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781844675043ISBN-10:1844675041UPC:9781844675043Book Category:Art, Social Science, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Popular Culture, FilmBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.55 x 5.52 x 0.89 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SC3R4BA386
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781844675043ISBN-10:1844675041UPC:9781844675043Book Category:Art, Social Science, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Popular Culture, FilmBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.55 x 5.52 x 0.89 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SC3R4BA386
Esther Leslie is a lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, London. She is the author of Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism and sits on the editorial boards of Historical Materialism, Radical Philosophy and Revolutionary History.
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