Tex Avery

A Unique Legacy

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Floriane Place-Verghnes examines the work of this great American animator. Focusing primarily on four facets of Avery's work, the author first concentrates on Avery's ability to depict the American attempt both to retrieve the past nostalgically and to catch the Zeitgeist of 1940s America, which confronts the questions of violence and survival. She also analyzes issues of sex and gender and the crucial role Hollywood played in reshaping the image of womanhood, reducing it to a bipolar opposition. Thirdly, she examines the comic language developed by Avery which, although drawing on the work of the Marx Brothers and Chaplin (among others), transcended their conventions. Finally, Place-Verghnes considers Avery's place in the history of cartoon-making technique.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-08-09
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt318 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor160
FörlagJohn Libbey & Co
ISBN9780861966592

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Introduction Section 1: A foreword on the generic context 1. The cartoon-making technique; 2. The cartoon before Tex Section 2: The uniqueness of Tex Avery's testimony 3. Tex Avery's Americanness: An attempt to retrieve the past 4. Facing contemporary politics; 5. Tex Avery's unique viewpoint on good, evil and morality Section 3: On sex and gender 6. Freudian pansexualism: Concepts of activity/passivity 7. Reduction of womanhood into twp types: The destructive power of women 8. Oedipal relationships and their consequences Section 4: Tex Avery's unique comic strategies 9. The burlesque heritage 10. Towards a pragmatic relation with the audience; 11. The provisional nature of the Averyan universe Conclusion; Filmography; Bibliography