Thursday, 18 June 2020

cartoons are great for teaching

Cartoons can teach you grammar:
Jay Doubleyou: goldilocks and the three bears > a story to tell the difference between present perfect simple and continuous

And are lots of fun:
Jay Doubleyou: animation

Especially cartoons from the master, Tex Avery:
Jay Doubleyou: a symphony in slang: a classic cartoon full of idioms
Jay Doubleyou: a symphony in slang

Here's one full of action - and more:
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Dixieland Droopy (1954) from Jason Todd on Vimeo.

Here's a nice little study of that cartoon:
David Germain's blog: The subversive cleverness of Dixieland Droopy

And, yes, cartoons can be 'subversive':
Jay Doubleyou: part of a political cartoonist's job is to cause offence

And rather naughty:
Tex Avery (1908-1980)

And quite radical:
Tex Avery: Arch-Radicalizer of the Hollywood Cartoon - Bright Lights Film Journal

This last example is making fun of Disney:

Where Avery does use the kind of rural setting common to fairy tales, he makes it Disneyesque; in The Bear’s Tale, the camera self-consciously pans the same woodland so many times:

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