{"product_id":"hollywood-flatlands-animation-critical-theory-and-the-avant-garde-9781844675043","title":"Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde","description":"With ruminations on drawing, colour and caricature, on the political meaning of fairy-tales, talking animals and human beings as machines, \u003ci\u003eHollywood Flatlands\u003c\/i\u003e brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on the work of aesthetic and political revolutionaries of the inter-war period, Esther Leslie reveals how the animation of commodities can be studied as a journey into modernity in cinema. She looks afresh at the links between the Soviet Constructivists and the Bauhaus, for instance, and those between Walter Benjamin and cinematic abstraction. She also provides new interpretations of the writings of Siegfried Kracauer on animation, shows how Theodor Adorno's and Max Horkheimer's film viewing affected their intellectual development, and reconsiders Sergei Eisenstein's famous handshake with Mickey Mouse at Disney's Hyperion Studios in 1930.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEsther Leslie\u003c\/b\u003e is a lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, London. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism\u003c\/i\u003e and sits on the editorial boards of \u003ci\u003eHistorical Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary History\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50363335213330,"sku":"9781844675043","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_862edf45-95d8-4e37-816b-10de097ed421.jpg?v=1728411456","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hollywood-flatlands-animation-critical-theory-and-the-avant-garde-9781844675043","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}