Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+5604+4294967242 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1153590 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=647771 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=629459 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=647878 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=558682 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=274273 In Hollywood Cartoons, Michael Barrier takes us on a guided tour of American animation in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, to meet the legendary artists and entrepreneurs who created Bugs Bunny, Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, Wile E. Coyote, Donald Duck, Tom and Jerry, and many other cartoon favorites. Beginning with black-and-white silent cartoons such as Winsor McCays Gertie the Dinosaur, Barrier offers an insightful account of animations first flowering, taking us inside early New York studios and such Hollywood giants as Disney, Warner Bros., and MGM. Barrier excels at illuminating the creative side of animation - revealing how stories are put together, how animators develop a character, how technical innovations enhance the realism of cartoons. Here too are colorful portraits of the giants of the field, from Walt and Roy Disney and their animators (including Ub Iwerks, Bill Tytia, and Ward Kimball), to Dave and Max Fleischer, Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, and Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera. Along the way, Barrier gives us an inside look at the making of such groundbreaking cartoons as the Out of the Inkwell series (with KoKo the Clown), Steamboat Willie (the first successful sound cartoon), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Bambi.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=297086 This guide to 180 animated feature films, 58 features with animated sequences, and some 1,500 animated shorts aids film cartoon lovers learn the basics rather than the more technical aspects behind the landmark short Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906), worthy Academy Award winners like Fantasia (1940), and duds such as the X-rated Dirty Duck (1977). Entries offer a synopsis, basic information, and authors rating (for features). An appendix lists the major animation studios. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=128129 Acclaimed critic and historian Stefan Kanfer follows the ascent of Americas most beloved and successful original art form from vaudeville sideshow to global industry, in the process holding up a mirror to the passing parade of cartoons, a mirror in which their captured reflections leave an indelible record of the changing nature of American tastes, values, and dreams. Art and commerce combine and collide again and again in Stefan Kanfers history, with results that range from predictably dismaying to hilarious. Take Daffy Ducks signature voice: If Warner Bros. producer Leon Schlesinger hadnt been such a tightfisted employer, Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, and the rest of his legendary animation team might never have created the thputtering duck to lampoon the bosss speech impairment. (Fearing Schlesingers reaction, the animators wrote out their resignations before his initial screening, only to watch the oblivious Schlesinger leap to his feet and exclaim, Jeethus Christh, thats a funny voithe! Whered you get that voithe?) Small victories, uneasy stalemates, and defeats enough to make a cynic weep all have their hour in the story of an industry whose fortunes have swung between wild expansion and profound depression. To know the cartoons America has loved is to know America: the Jazz Ages infatuation with Betty Boops shimmy; F.D.R.s public embrace of Disneys The Three Little Pigs and its smash theme song Whose Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf during the Great Depression; the adoption during World War II of brash, indomitable Bugs Bunny as an unofficial symbol of the American GI; an unself-conscious consumer cultures infatuation with an endless string of household-appliance jokes on The Flintstones; and the countercultures attraction to the gritty and sexually explicit exploits of Ralph Bakshis Fritz the Cat. In the end, though, the history of animation is the story of its geniuses. Serious Business disperses the clouds created by decades of received wisdom, bogus myth-making, and corporate propaganda to reveal a cast of characters whose entertainment value exceeds that of their creations. Among them are Winsor McCay, the first master of animated cartoons; Tex Avery and Chuck Jones, whose Termite Terrace shenanigans produced among the best cartoons and the wildest stories in animation history; and of course Walt Disney, in the pantheon alongside Thomas Edison and Henry Ford as a national archetype, inventive, prickly, biased, bent on success at any cost, self-absorbed, and rooted in Americas heartland.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=131411