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Anvils, Mallets & Dynamite: The Unauthorized Biography of Looney Tunes - Hardcover | Diverse Reads

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Looney Tunes cartoons, writes celebrated television critic Jaime Weinman, are the high-water mark of American filmed comedy. Surreal, irreverent, philosophical, and riotously funny, they have maintained their power over audiences for generations and inspired such giants of the cinema as Mel Brooks, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas. Here, finally, Weinman gives Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Tweety, Sylvester, and the whole cast of animated icons their long-awaited due. With meticulous research, he takes us inside the Warners' studio to unlock the mystery of how an unlikely band of directors and artists working in the shadow of Walt Disney created a wild, visually stunning and oh-so-violent brand of comedy that has never been matched for sheer volume of laughs. The result is an unexpected and fascinating story that matches the Looney Tunes themselves for energy, humor, and ingenuity.

ISBN-13: 9781989555460

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Sutherland House Books

Publication Date: 10-05-2021

Pages: 375

Product Dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

Jaime Weinman is an expert on television and popular culture; he has written for Vox, Vice, Maclean's, Literary Review of Canada, and ­­Canadian Screenwriter.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Who Are These Talking Animals, and Why Do We Care? 1

Chapter 2 Bosko Beginnings 31

Chapter 3 Daffy 53

Chapter 4 Timing 65

Chapter 5 Birth of a Bunny 79

Chapter 6 Gags 98

Chapter 7 Looney on the Page 114

Chapter 8 New Directors 123

Chapter 9 Daffy, 2.0 141

Chapter 10 Transitioning to TV 158

Chapter 11 The Censored Eleven (and Counting) 173

Chapter 12 New Cartoons, Old Characters 191

Chapter 13 Space Back in Jam Action 205

Chapter 14 A New Bunny 220

Epilogue Racketeer Rabbit (Anatomy of a Cartoon) 239

Acknowledgments 258

Notes 260