Creator of the mono-maniacal Wile E. Coyote and his elusive prey, the
Road Runner, Chuck Jones has won three Academy Awards and been
responsible for many classics of animation featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy
Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd. Who better to do Chuck Jones than Hugh
Kenner, master wordsmith and technophile, a man especially qualified to
illuminate the form of literacy that Jones so wonderfully executes in
the art of character animation? A Flurry of Drawings reveals in
cartoon-like sequences the irrepressible humor and profound reflection
that have shaped Chuck Jones's work. Unlike Walt Disney, Jones and his
fellow animators at Warner Brothers were not interested in cartoons that
mimicked reality. They pursued instead the reality of the imagination,
the Toon world where believability is more important than realism and
movement is the ultimate aesthetic arbiter. Kenner offers both a
fascinating explanation of cartoon culture and a new understanding of
art's relationship to technology, criticism, freedom, and imagination.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and
cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,
peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand
technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
