Hollywood Flatlands - Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde

Informationen zum Autor Esther Leslie is a lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, London. She is the author of Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism and sits on the editorial boards of Historical Materialism, Radical Philosophy and Revolutionary History. Klappentext Brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism. Zusammenfassung 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! reveals how the animation of commodities can be studied as a journey into modernity in cinema.

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Esther Leslie, Leslie Esther
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.2004
• EAN: 9781844675043
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-504-3
• No. of pages: 362
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Animated, United States of America, USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Animated films and animation, Animated Films, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism