Chuck Jones

A Flurry of Drawings

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by Hugh Kenner

Type: Biographies
Subject: Director > Chuck Jones
Keywords: Chuck Jones, animation, cartoons
Publishing date: 2022
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English

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Physical desc.

Paperback • 132 pages
5 x 8 inches (12.5 x 20.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-520-30587-8

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Book Presentation:
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?

About the Author:
Hugh Kenner is one of America's great literary critics and has written on a range of subjects that includes Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, and geodesic domes.

Press Reviews:
"A comic genius, up there with Keaton and Mack Sennett. I thank him for teaching me so much about breaking all the laws of physics . . . just for the joy of it."—Steven Spielberg "One of America's great filmmakers." --Newsweek

"The antsy, unkillable vitality of Jone's draftsmanship is an indication of what sets him apart from every other cartoon director--a signature that's the equivalent of the elusive musical concept called swing. A single line drawn by Chuck Jones implies hilarious movement the way a single note played by Louis Armstrong or Lester Young implies irresistible rhythms." --Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker

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