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- Title
The kiss of the rabbit woman.
- Authors
Telotte, J. P.
- Abstract
This essay examines the relationship between animation aesthetics and the powers of cultural representation, specifically as illustrated by the love chase and its iconography that are central to classic-era Warners Bros cartoons. The faux love scenes that recur, especially in the Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd films, showcase one of the form's key appeals, revealing a freedom from power in our ability to accept and violate conventions, to read and mock signs. Those same scenes, because they so pointedly mark intersections of a flat, fantastic realm and of a realistic or illusion-of-life register, help to signal an abiding appeal of all cartoons, as they bind together artificial and the real, our world and those we are able to construct.
- Subjects
ANIMATED films -- Social aspects; SYMBOLISM in motion pictures; LOVE in motion pictures; BUGS Bunny (Fictional character); WARNER Bros. Animation
- Publication
Screen, 2012, Vol 53, Issue 2, p136
- ISSN
0036-9543
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1093/screen/hjs003