Showing posts with label Tex Avery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tex Avery. Show all posts
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Saturday, August 20, 2016
The Forty Year Rule
Overheard at Lem's:
Hmmm, where does that leave us? A mid-1970's revival? But if Ron is correct, we're overdue for a 1960's nostalgia trip.
How would that play out in pop culture?
[editor's note--this post has used 100% recycled tags. Tag Lives Matter]
Ron said...I've heard of a so-called "40 year rule" from a video I linked to back here: Lindsay Ellis (Nostalgia Chick) said that a generation will get culturally obsessed with the generation 40 years prior to it -- just recent enough to be in living memory, but just long enough that it can be romanticized.
I wonder if the '60s interest is due to it being 50 years since the war....like how we talked about the "Greatest Generation" of WWII in the '90s.
August 20, 2016 at 7:43 PM
Hmmm, where does that leave us? A mid-1970's revival? But if Ron is correct, we're overdue for a 1960's nostalgia trip.
How would that play out in pop culture?
[editor's note--this post has used 100% recycled tags. Tag Lives Matter]
Saturday, March 5, 2016
KLEM FM
Here's to the good ol' days when Mexico and El Norte saw more eye to eye and Tex Avery was animating Frito Lay characters.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Wolf Blitzer Would Not Approve
The Tex Avery cartoon "Blitz Wolf" is from an era when Americans recognized a common enemy and were not afraid to name it.
The cartoon was nominated but lost out in the Oscars to a Donald Duck cartoon, Der Fuehrer's Face. These were all from a time when moral distinctions were more clearly and more easily drawn.
The Wiki page on Blitz Wolf
The cartoon was nominated but lost out in the Oscars to a Donald Duck cartoon, Der Fuehrer's Face. These were all from a time when moral distinctions were more clearly and more easily drawn.
The Wiki page on Blitz Wolf
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Wolf Blitzer Would Not Approve
Blake wrote a great comment back here on my Red Hot Riding Hood/Tex Avery post. This Tex Avery cartoon is from the same era, but is an example of a raw & visceral response to a common enemy.
The cartoon was nominated but lost out in the Oscars to a Donald Duck cartoon, Der Fuehrer's Face. These were all from a time when moral distinctions were more clearly and more easily drawn.
The Wiki page on Blitz Wolf
The cartoon was nominated but lost out in the Oscars to a Donald Duck cartoon, Der Fuehrer's Face. These were all from a time when moral distinctions were more clearly and more easily drawn.
The Wiki page on Blitz Wolf
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Saturday Morning Cartoons
I learned about Tex Avery by accident. Several years ago, impelled by memory alone and enabled by Google, I arrived at his name. Never mind that his name was already in plain sight of practically everyone who laughed at cartoons starting in the 1940's.
Red Hot Riding Hood (1943) was one of his earliest efforts, and one so ahead of its time that few appreciate its prescience. Lindsay Ellis pretty much sums up the cartoon's lasting influence as well as its "reverse cautionary tale" meaning and that "no means no":
Red Hot Riding Hood (1943) was one of his earliest efforts, and one so ahead of its time that few appreciate its prescience. Lindsay Ellis pretty much sums up the cartoon's lasting influence as well as its "reverse cautionary tale" meaning and that "no means no":
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