BearManor Media News — q&a
Q&A with Dan Sendker, author of Dance of the Comedians
Q&A with Dan Sendker, author of Dance of the Comedians 1. “Dance of the Comedians” is an unusual title for a book on the Road Runner. Where did it come from?A: There’s a famous piece of classical music called “Dance of the Comedians” that plays in multiple Road Runner cartoons and essentially serves as a musical theme for the characters. I also felt like it’s a good way to describe the long relationship between the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote!2. This book seems to have everything a Chuck Jones fan could think of! Is there anything you couldn’t include,...
Q & A WITH LEONARD J. KOHL, author of Bluto, Buster and The Blob
Q & A WITH LEONARD J. KOHL, author of Bluto, Buster and The Blob: Conversations with Actors and Writers From Hollywood and Radio’s Golden Age! Q: In looking over your interviews with movie celebrities and cartoon animators, I notice that you seem to be fascinated by the "Golden Days of Hollywood." Why is that?A: I'm going to have to give you a LONG answer to that question! First of all, I'm a "Baby Boomer." (I was born around the "tail end" of that era in 1958). The "Baby Boom" Generation are people born from about the end of World War...
Interview with James Stratton, author of A Century in the Telling: Must-See Genre Films
Interview with James Stratton, author of A Century in the Telling: Must-See Genre Films (Q) You have written books about individual films, individual stars, and individual directors. What motivated you to write about such a wide variety of genre films and to use the hundred year perspective?(A) Genre is the mainstay of American filmmaking. For over a century now, Hollywood movies have centered around distinct archetypes that have remained remarkably resilient. To understand those structures is to understand a great deal about the grammar, themes, and economic realities of classic American cinema. This book gave me the opportunity to discuss...
Q & A for BearManor Media: Lawrence Schulman, author of the 2 volumes of Garland
Q & A for BearManor Media: Lawrence Schulman, author of the 2 volumes of Garland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZWVoYifRxY 1. How did your passion for Judy Garland begin?Surprisingly, there was no single moment. I was too young to attend her 1961 Carnegie Hall concerts, but I do remember buying the double-LP of it when it came out that same year. But, well before that I was captivated enough by her – and this even before I was a teenager – to get up at ungodly hours of the night to watch her old films on T.V. I suppose this was from seeing The...
Q & A with Matthew Hahn, author of The Animated Universal Classic Monsters
Q & A with Matthew Hahn, author of The Animated Universal Classic Monsters What is the book about?I have attempted to catalogue every cartoon featuring an animated caricature of a Universal Classic Monster. There are seven main monsters—Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Wolfman, the 1943 Phantom of the Opera, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon—plus the Bride. There was a total of approximately forty classic monsters, and we cover about a dozen of them in animation.What do you mean by “animated caricatures”?In the 1930s-50s, no movie show was complete without a cartoon, and exhibitors preferred...