Event

Bad Bugs Bunny

In Person: Film Archivist Dennis Nyback

Purchase a combination ticket for both BAD BUGS BUNNY and THE MORMON CHURCH EXPLAINS IT ALL TO YOU at a discount price! Visit the Cinema Arts Centre website (www.CinemaArtsCentre.org) for details.

The truth about American history revealed in fabulous Warner Brothers cartoons! It is all here, the racism, sexism, and violence! Dennis Nyback will put these long-censored cartoons into historical perspective, and discuss their history. The Game (1932) Jewish and gay jokes. He Was Her Man (1936) Extreme violence toward women. Sioux Me (1939) Native American stereotypes. Let It Be Me (1936) Bing Crosby as woman abusing cad. He sued Warners to stop the showing of this cartoon. Ali Baba Bound (1940) Arab stereotypes including a comic look at a suicide bomber. All This And Rabbit Stew (1943) Bugs and a Stepin Fetchit type black man. Tokyo Jokio (1943) Extremely tasteless WW II propaganda. Tin Pan Alley Cats (1943) All black cartoon with a caricature of Fats Waller. Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944) More Japan bashing from WW II.