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

With ruminations on drawing, color and caricature, and on the political meaning of fairy tales, talking animals and human beings as machines, Hollywood Flatlands brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism. It questions what T.W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Clement Greenberg and others actually thought of popular culture. 13 color and 33 b/w illustrations.