Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Week Two Annotated Bibliography

February 9, 2011

This is my second annotated bibliography.


Russell-Snyder, Spenser. "Looney Propaganda: Warner Bros. Animation and WWII." Evergreen State College Archives and Special Collections. Evergreen State College, 2004. Web. 9 Feb 2011. .

Russell-Snyder illustrates the influence through cartoon propaganda Warner Brothers industry possessed during World War II. Warner Brothers partnered with the Armed Forces Motion Picture Unit to create short cartoons portraying the stereotypical images of the Axis forces. To demonstrate, in a comic way, how soldiers should not be acting, SNAFU was created to look and sound like bugs bunny. Around the same period of time, seven short films entitled “How We Fight” took the infamous Warner Brothers characters and assist in initiating soldiers. Along with educating the public, the purpose was to bring comic relief to a stressful time and for Americans at home to understand what soldiers were experiencing in wartime. These cartoon never told the story of the prejudice against the Japanese happening in our own back yard, only the anti-Semitism occurring over seas. Shortly after the war ended, the cartoons were placed in the studio’s vault and only released recently. Not all were placed back into the media of the public however; few are kept in the vault because of their blatant racism and the company does not want a backlash to result.

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