Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde
by Esther Leslie
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Read in March, 2004
I know what you are thinking - good god, not another book in the unending avalanche of books about Walter Benjamin. It seems these days that it is required that at least 30% of the academy at any given time must be writing a book on Benjamin.
However, this book stands out from the crowd, not only because it is not exclusively about Benjamin - Horkheimer, Adorno, Kracauer, Brecht and Eisenstein also make appeareances - but because it is also an interesting attempt to connect these critics of ...more
However, this book stands out from the crowd, not only because it is not exclusively about Benjamin - Horkheimer, Adorno, Kracauer, Brecht and Eisenstein also make appeareances - but because it is also an interesting attempt to connect these critics of ...more
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want to read the parts about the nazi/ford/disney connections, esp disney and hitler. hitler was a big fan of disney films. disney is a big investor in porn, and its investments in more hard core stuff is suspected but hard to determine. i've recently read that Danzig was picked and groomed by Disney ( and a record label they own, Hollywood records)...saw this amazing piece by Paul McCarthy at the WAlker, glossy found photos illuminating on the connections between dinsey icongraphy/nazi icongrap...more
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