The kiss of the rabbit woman
2012; Oxford University Press; Volume: 53; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/screen/hjs003
ISSN1460-2474
Autores ResumoThis essay examines the relationship between animation aesthetics and the powers of cultural representation, specifically as illustrated by the love chase and its iconography that are central to classic-era Warners Bros cartoons. The faux love scenes that recur, especially in the Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd films, showcase one of the form's key appeals, revealing a freedom from power in our ability to accept and violate conventions, to read and mock signs. Those same scenes, because they so pointedly mark intersections of a flat, fantastic realm and of a realistic or illusion-of-life register, help to signal an abiding appeal of all cartoons, as they bind together artificial and the real, our world and those we are able to construct.
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