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Hollywood Flatlands - by Esther Leslie (Paperback)

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  • 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.
  • About the Author: Esther Leslie is a lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, London.
  • 362 Pages
  • Art, Popular Culture

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About the Book



Brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism.



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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.



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"A vital new book."--ASIFA

"In an age when the Walt Disney Co ... is completely lost to sober cultural debate, it is not insignificant to remember that, quite recently, the opposite was the case."--Los Angeles Times

"This is about much more than the House of Mouse, tracing with a deft hand the aesthetic precursors of film animation in the work of Hans Richter, Walter Ruttman and Dziga Vertov."--Radical Philosophy

"In this incisive and profound study, you find such classic subjects as Adolph Hitler, Charlie Chaplin, Leon Trotsky, Mickey Mouse, Nazism, Leni Riefenstahl, Theodor W. Adorno, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dumbo, Betty Boop, the Class Struggle, Piet Mondrian, Walter Benjamin and Walt Disney (along with much, much more)."--Giannalberto Bendazzi

"Brash and erudite, Hollywood Flatlands treats animated cartoons as an avant-garde taste and anti-illusionism as a Modernist problematic."--London Review of Books

"Perceptive and elegant."--Times Literary Supplement

"Once in a long while, a book appears that meets all the high standards of scholarship. In the field of animation, Leslie's Hollywood Flatlands is that work ... groundbreaking."--Choice, A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2003



About the Author



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.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.55 Inches (H) x 5.52 Inches (W) x .89 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.02 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 362
Genre: Art
Sub-Genre: Popular Culture
Publisher: Verso
Format: Paperback
Author: Esther Leslie
Language: English
Street Date: June 17, 2004
TCIN: 1008493322
UPC: 9781844675043
Item Number (DPCI): 247-06-9048
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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