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    The Labor Behind the Looney

    Mar 03, 2019 2 minutes
    BY INA DIANE ARCHER

    Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons

    By Hannah Frank, University of California Press, $34.95

    AKING ON THE SISYPHEAN TASK OF ANALYZING THOUSANDS of individual frames from animated cartoons, Hannah Frank’s intricately argued book suggests an imaginative, alternative chronicle of labor in commercial studio animation. The materialist study maintains the layered

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