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

Leslie, Esther

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844675041 ISBN 13 : 9781844675043

Editeur : Verso Books, 2004

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1844675041
• ISBN 13: 9781844675043
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 362
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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