Chasing Speedy Gonzales: The Secret History of the World's Fastest Cartoon Mouse
Autor Stephen Andesen Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 ian 2027
Speedy Gonzalez is a mouse that contains multitudes. A plucky hero able to outrun and outsmart his enemies, he's one of Warner Brothers' oldest cartoon characters. (He first debuted in 1953, during the "Golden Age" of Looney Tunes.) Over the years many observers-taking note of his large yellow sombrero, broken English, and childlike excitability-have criticized Speedy as a stereotype of Mexicans and Latin Americans more broadly. Yet others have hailed him as a revolutionary cultural icon who subverted white audiences' expectations by being the hero of his own stories. (When the Cartoon Network pulled his shorts in 1999, it was The League of United Latin American Citizens who led the charge in calling for his return.)
Drawing on interviews, research, and new archival sources, Chasing Speedy briskly burrows into the history of American animation to explain the influences of racial stereotypes in popular media that still linger today and reveals the impact that Latine animators and audiences have had in Speedy's creation and development. As the character's image and perceptions of him have evolved over the years, author Stephen Andes shows how Speedy has been a recurrent flashpoint in Latine history and culture, one that simultaneously represents a racist past and a hopeful future with positive cultural icons.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798765142769
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 41 Images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 41 Images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Prologue: Three Origin Stories for the Fastest Mouse in All Mexico
Part I: Animating the Stereotype
1. Looney Tunes is On!
2. The Most Interesting Mouse in the World
3. Dressing Speedy Gonzales
4. Warming Up Speedy's [Brown] Voice
5. From "Little Pancho" to "Cat-Tails for Two"
Interlude: "Meesing Personas"
Part II: Becoming the Icon
6. If Cantinflas Had a Pet Mouse
7. Speedy's Classic Age
8. The Pink Panther's BFF
9. Yo Soy Speedy Gonzales
10. The Corporate Synergy of Speedy
11. The Mouse Gets (Un)canceled
12. Pizzarriba and After
13. What Speedy Means Today
Epilogue: Make These Move
Appendix: Speedy Gonzales Animated Shorts in the Golden Age
Part I: Animating the Stereotype
1. Looney Tunes is On!
2. The Most Interesting Mouse in the World
3. Dressing Speedy Gonzales
4. Warming Up Speedy's [Brown] Voice
5. From "Little Pancho" to "Cat-Tails for Two"
Interlude: "Meesing Personas"
Part II: Becoming the Icon
6. If Cantinflas Had a Pet Mouse
7. Speedy's Classic Age
8. The Pink Panther's BFF
9. Yo Soy Speedy Gonzales
10. The Corporate Synergy of Speedy
11. The Mouse Gets (Un)canceled
12. Pizzarriba and After
13. What Speedy Means Today
Epilogue: Make These Move
Appendix: Speedy Gonzales Animated Shorts in the Golden Age
Recenzii
Stephen Andes doesn't just chase the fastest mouse in all Mexico, he perfectly captures the beautiful, messy, hilarious, sometimes painful, and powerful truth of why Speedy Gonzales and his legend still runs through our hearts. This book is full of history, humor, love, and cheese. ¡Andale, andale, read it now!
Andes corners Speedy's sombrero-shadowed past and clocks him sprinting toward unsettled futures. Chasing Speedy zigzags from McKimson's bowling-alley broma to Mel Blanc's racial ventriloquy, honoring the unsung pencils of Phil de Lara, Manny Perez, and Bill Melendez - los olvidados who breathed mexicanidad into the ratón Warner tried to launder white. Refusing the racist/not-racist binary, Andes excavates a both/and Speedy: stereotype y subversive, vergüenza y orgullo. From LULAC's spirited defense to Jorge Gutierrez's bootleg loyalty, this is popcultura scholarship at its best. ¡Ándale, ándale!
¡Arriba, arriba! A brilliant treatise on a beloved-yet-unappreciated animated hero whose prescience becomes more and more evident as the years pass - and which this book captures perfectly
Chasing Speedy Gonzales is an entertaining, "speedy" read, packed with information about the social, political and cultural background of Looney Tunes shorts and untold stories of the Mexican-American people who worked on them. Andes shows us that the origins and meanings of pop-culture stereotypes can be almost as elusive as the fastest mouse in all Mexico.
For years colleagues have suggested that I wrote the book on Speedy Gonzales, and I have allowed the myth to follow me and evolve and grow. But the charade must now end as Stephen Andes (wily Gringo pointy-headed academic) has actually now written the book on Speedy, Chasing Speedy Gonzales. Smart, sharp, clever, and complex (like Speedy!), Andes's cultural studies masterpiece is a blend of cinematic sleuthing, ethnic studies spelunking, and sublime intellectual imagination. Andes boldly takes us beyond the facile veneer of Speedy as animated "Mexican" facsimile, and forces to confront how U.S. cinema shaped the public consciousness here in the United States and beyond. Andes's tome forever gives the lie to cartoons as "kids' stuff" and reveals that they, like nightmares, are at the root of the American public unconscious.
Thoughtful, surprising, and full of heart, Chasing Speedy Gonzales turns a familiar cartoon mouse into a doorway to a much larger story about Mexican American creativity, memory, and representation.
In Chasing Speedy, Stephen Andes deftly unpacks the tangled cultural life of Speedy Gonzales, tracing the character's movement from racist caricature to contested icon to site of Latine reclamation. With archival rigor, historical nuance, and an unerring eye for the contradictions embedded in popular culture, Andes refuses the easy binary of "racist" or "not racist," showing instead how Mexican American animators and Latine audiences helped reshape a problematic figure into something more complicated, resilient, and revealing. This is a sharp, necessary study of animation, representation, and the power communities have to wrest meaning from the images made about them, no matter how fraught.
The best books about cartoon history put it in a vibrant historical context. This book is no exception. At the end of the day, it's the history of Mexicanness in the United States as told through the lens of Hollywood animation. I have so many favorite parts -- but I especially love the human stories, like those of the unsung Mexican and Latinx animation artists. Andes pulls back the curtain of the studio subculture, uncovers original research, and brings the story to life.
Andes corners Speedy's sombrero-shadowed past and clocks him sprinting toward unsettled futures. Chasing Speedy zigzags from McKimson's bowling-alley broma to Mel Blanc's racial ventriloquy, honoring the unsung pencils of Phil de Lara, Manny Perez, and Bill Melendez - los olvidados who breathed mexicanidad into the ratón Warner tried to launder white. Refusing the racist/not-racist binary, Andes excavates a both/and Speedy: stereotype y subversive, vergüenza y orgullo. From LULAC's spirited defense to Jorge Gutierrez's bootleg loyalty, this is popcultura scholarship at its best. ¡Ándale, ándale!
¡Arriba, arriba! A brilliant treatise on a beloved-yet-unappreciated animated hero whose prescience becomes more and more evident as the years pass - and which this book captures perfectly
Chasing Speedy Gonzales is an entertaining, "speedy" read, packed with information about the social, political and cultural background of Looney Tunes shorts and untold stories of the Mexican-American people who worked on them. Andes shows us that the origins and meanings of pop-culture stereotypes can be almost as elusive as the fastest mouse in all Mexico.
For years colleagues have suggested that I wrote the book on Speedy Gonzales, and I have allowed the myth to follow me and evolve and grow. But the charade must now end as Stephen Andes (wily Gringo pointy-headed academic) has actually now written the book on Speedy, Chasing Speedy Gonzales. Smart, sharp, clever, and complex (like Speedy!), Andes's cultural studies masterpiece is a blend of cinematic sleuthing, ethnic studies spelunking, and sublime intellectual imagination. Andes boldly takes us beyond the facile veneer of Speedy as animated "Mexican" facsimile, and forces to confront how U.S. cinema shaped the public consciousness here in the United States and beyond. Andes's tome forever gives the lie to cartoons as "kids' stuff" and reveals that they, like nightmares, are at the root of the American public unconscious.
Thoughtful, surprising, and full of heart, Chasing Speedy Gonzales turns a familiar cartoon mouse into a doorway to a much larger story about Mexican American creativity, memory, and representation.
In Chasing Speedy, Stephen Andes deftly unpacks the tangled cultural life of Speedy Gonzales, tracing the character's movement from racist caricature to contested icon to site of Latine reclamation. With archival rigor, historical nuance, and an unerring eye for the contradictions embedded in popular culture, Andes refuses the easy binary of "racist" or "not racist," showing instead how Mexican American animators and Latine audiences helped reshape a problematic figure into something more complicated, resilient, and revealing. This is a sharp, necessary study of animation, representation, and the power communities have to wrest meaning from the images made about them, no matter how fraught.
The best books about cartoon history put it in a vibrant historical context. This book is no exception. At the end of the day, it's the history of Mexicanness in the United States as told through the lens of Hollywood animation. I have so many favorite parts -- but I especially love the human stories, like those of the unsung Mexican and Latinx animation artists. Andes pulls back the curtain of the studio subculture, uncovers original research, and brings the story to life.