Prime Time Animation : Television Animation and American Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415283250 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 272 str.

Harrison Mark; Carole A. Stabile; Mark Harrison

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In September 1960 a television show emerged from the mists of prehistoric time to take its place as the mother of all animated sitcoms. The Flintstones spawned dozens of imitations, just as, two decades later, The Simpsons sparked a renaissance of prime-time animation.

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Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Images Introduction - Prime Time Animation: An Overview Carol A. Stabile and Mark Harrison Part 1: Institutions: 1. 'Smarter than the Average Art Form': Animation in the Television Era Paul Wells 2. The Great Saturday Morning Exile: Scheduling Cartoons on Television's Periphery in the 1960s Jason Mittell 3. Re-Drawing the Bottom Line Allen Larson 4. Flintstones to Futurama: Networks and Prime Time Animation David T. McMahan and Wendy Hilton-Morrow 5. Synergy Nirvana: Brand Equity, Television Animation, and Cartoon Network Kevin Sandler 6. The Digital Turn: Animation in the Age of Information Technologies Alice Crawford Part 2: Readings: 7. Back to the Drawing Board: The Family in Animated Television Comedy Michael Tueth 8. From Fred and Wilma to Ren and Stimpy: What Makes a Cartoon Prime Time ? Rebecca Farley 9. 'We Hardly Watch that Rude, Crude Show:' Class and Taste in The Simpsons 10. Misery Chick: Irony, Alienation, and Animation in MTV's Daria Kathy Newman 11. 'What Are Those Little Girls Made Of?' The Power Puff Girls and Consumer Culture 12. 'Oh My God, They Digitized Kenny!' Travels in the South Park Cybercommunity V4.0 List of Contributors

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Authored by Stabile, Carol