Michael S. Shull, David E. Wilt

Doing Their Bit

Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939-1945, 2d ed.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The golden age of animation stretched from the early 1930s to the mid-1950s, with movie cartoons reaching an extraordinarily high level of artistry and technique--far higher than today's TV cartoons, for instance. Nearly 1000 cartoons were produced by the seven major animation studios in the U.S. between January 1, 1939, and September 30, 1945--the immediate pre-World War II period up to the cessation of hostilities. More than a quarter of the cartoons substantially refer to the war, and thereby are invaluable in helping to understand American attitudes and Hollywood's reflection of them. The meat of Doing Their Bit is a filmography with extremely detailed summaries of the 260 or so commercially produced, animated, war-related shorts, 1939-1945. There is also a good bit of overall commentary on these films as a group. Two chapters wrap up animated cartoons of World War I and the general political tenor of animated talkies of the 1930s. This edition also includes a new chapter on the outrageous government-sponsored Pvt Snafus.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780786415557
• ISBN-10: 078641555X
• Artikelnr.: 21868909

Autorenporträt

Film historian and media propaganda specialist Michael S. Shull currently teaches film history at George Washington University and teaches mass communications at Montgomery College (both in the Washington, D.C., area). He lives in Germantown, Maryland.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Preface to the Second Edition     
1. Not for Kids Only     
2. Moving Lines Behind the Lines: Cartoons of World War I     
3. Animated Talkies During the 1930s: A Political Overview     
4. Meet John Doughboy: 1939-1941     
5. All Out for V: 1942     
6. Seein' Red, White 'n' Blue: 1943     
7. Slow Fade on the Home Front: 1944-1945     
8. The Adventures of Private Snafu, or, How to Laugh at the Military While
Learning What Not to Do     
9. That's All, Folks!     
Filmography     
Private Snafu Cartoons     
Mr. Hook Cartoons     
Appendix A. War-Related American Cartoons     
Appendix B. Frequency of Selected Topical References (All Cartoons)     
Appendix C. War Relevancy     
Appendix D. Featured Characters     
Appendix E. "Ambiguous" List     
Appendix F. Selected War-Related Commercial Animated Shorts: 1915-1918     
Notes     
Bibliography     
Text Index (to page numbers)     
Filmography Index (to entry numbers)