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Cartoons in hard times : the animated shorts of Disney and Warner Brothers in depression and war 1932-1945

Mollet, Tracey Louise, author

Overview

Cartoons in Hard Times provides a comprehensive analysis of the short subject animation released by the Walt Disney and Warner Brothers from 1932 and 1945, one of the most turbulent periods in Unites States history. Through a combination of content analysis, historical understanding and archival research, this book sheds new light on a hitherto unexplored area of animation, suggesting the ways in which Disney and Warner Brothers animation engaged with historical, social, economic and political changes in this era. The book also traces the development of animation into a medium fit for propaganda in 1941 and the changes in characters, tone, music and narrative that took place to facilitate this transition. Animation transformed in this era from a medium of entertainment, to a socio-political commentator before finally undertaking government sponsored propaganda during the Second World War.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Subject: Warner Bros. Cartoons. / Walt Disney Productions. / Looney tunes. / Animated films Social aspects United States. / Depressions 1929. / World War, 1939-1945 Motion pictures and the war.
• ISBN: 9781501328770, 1501328778, 9781501351969

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
NC1766.U52 W3735 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE