""De Seife moves appreciatively and thoroughly through all phases of the director's art and career. ""De Seife is to be congratulated for his painstaking analysis of Tashlin's methods.""
~Fred Patten, Animation World Network (web) Tashlin has been the subject of numerous studies in France since 1958, but Tashlinesque is the first American book devoted to his work." But his live-action directing included the same zany fantasy that made his animation so funny, and was so surreal that it remains unique after fifty years of live-action movies. "Tashlin was such a master of comedy in both animated shorts and live-action features that one is tempted to wish equally that he had never abandoned animation for the live-action features, and that he had started his live-action career sooner without getting sidetracked into animated cartoons. This is an important rediscovery of a highly unusual and truly hilarious American artist. cartoons starring Porky Pig, among others. Through close readings and pointed analyses of Tashlin's large and fascinating body of work, Ethan de Seife offers fresh insights into such classic films as Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, The Girl Can't Help It, Artists and Models, The Disorderly Orderly, and Son of Paleface, as well as numerous Warner Bros.
Tashlinesque considers the director's films in the contexts of Hollywood censorship, animation history, and the development of the genre of comedy in American film, with particular emphasis on the sex, satire, and visual flair that comprised Tashlin's distinctive artistic and comedic style. Long regarded as an anomaly or curiosity, Tashlin is finally given his due in this career-spanning survey. Yet his name is not especially well known today. The long-overdue study of an important American filmmakerįrank Tashlin (1913–1972) was a supremely gifted satirist and visual stylist who made an indelible mark on 1950s Hollywood and American popular culture-first as a talented animator working on Looney Tunes cartoons, then as muse to film stars Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope, and Jayne Mansfield.
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