Hollywood Flatlands

Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde

Esther Leslie

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English

Verso
17 June 2004

Film theory & criticism; Animated movies & films; Cultural studies; Animation

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.

By: Esther Leslie
Imprint: Verso
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 582g
ISBN: 9781844675043
ISBN 10: 1844675041
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 17 June 2004
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Active

Esther Leslie is the author of Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism. She is a lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, London, and sits on the editorial boards of Historical Materialism, Radical Philosophy and Revolutionary History.

Reviews for Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde

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 *