Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons

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In this beautifully written and deeply researched study, Hannah Frank provides an original way to understand American animated cartoons from the Golden Age of animation (1920–1960). In the pre—digital age of the twentieth century, the making of cartoons was mechanized and standardized: thousands of ...