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Kenner provides a brief, lively history of animation before focusing on the Warner Brothers animation studio, out of which came the wildest, most outrageous cartoons of the 1940s and 1950s. As Kenner notes, Warner was the only place in animation where the auteur theory applies, for each Warner cartoon director had his own take on the studio's characters. Chuck Jones was one of the directors responsible for the classics featuring the likes of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and the Road Runner, and his mastery of the Warner characters' personalities, along with his distinctive comic sensibilities (more droll than outlandish) and sense of visual design, made his cartoons standouts. In his somewhat rambling essay, Kenner makes perceptive observations on Jones' career and the artistry behind his six-minute gems. But since many of Kenner's biographical details and most of his illustrations are duplicated from Jones' memoir, Chuck Amuck (1989), you might, if you already own the earlier book, want to pass on Kenner's. Wherever there's keen adult interest in animation, however, it's still highly recommended. Gordon Flagg
From Kirkus Reviews
Dr. Seuss created the Grinch, but it took Chuck Jones to make him move. And that mangy coyote, Wile. E., with his ACME jet pack strapped to his back? It was Chuck Jones who choreographed those whistling plummets into vaguely Southwestern canyons and the poignant aerial views of exploding would-be predator bits. Beep- beep. Animation pioneer Jones also worked with Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Porky, and Tom and Jerry. Literary critic Kenner (Historical Fictions, 1990, etc.) muses on Jones and the art of animation in this entry, one of three that are kicking off the new Portraits of American Genius series from the University of California Press. The other two are Greg Sarris's Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream, profiling the Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, and Yvonne Fern's Gene Roddenberry: The Last Conversation, a discussion with the creator of Star Trek. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Kenner provides a brief, lively history of animation before focusing on the Warner Brothers animation studio, out of which came the wildest, most outrageous cartoons of the 1940s and 1950s. As Kenner notes, Warner was the only place in animation where the auteur theory applies, for each Warner cartoon director had his own take on the studio's characters. Chuck Jones was one of the directors responsible for the classics featuring the likes of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and the Road Runner, and his mastery of the Warner characters' personalities, along with his distinctive comic sensibilities (more droll than outlandish) and sense of visual design, made his cartoons standouts. In his somewhat rambling essay, Kenner makes perceptive observations on Jones' career and the artistry behind his six-minute gems. But since many of Kenner's biographical details and most of his illustrations are duplicated from Jones' memoir, Chuck Amuck (1989), you might, if you already own the earlier book, want to pass on Kenner's. Wherever there's keen adult interest in animation, however, it's still highly recommended. Gordon Flagg
From Kirkus Reviews
Dr. Seuss created the Grinch, but it took Chuck Jones to make him move. And that mangy coyote, Wile. E., with his ACME jet pack strapped to his back? It was Chuck Jones who choreographed those whistling plummets into vaguely Southwestern canyons and the poignant aerial views of exploding would-be predator bits. Beep- beep. Animation pioneer Jones also worked with Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Porky, and Tom and Jerry. Literary critic Kenner (Historical Fictions, 1990, etc.) muses on Jones and the art of animation in this entry, one of three that are kicking off the new Portraits of American Genius series from the University of California Press. The other two are Greg Sarris's Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream, profiling the Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, and Yvonne Fern's Gene Roddenberry: The Last Conversation, a discussion with the creator of Star Trek. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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