Paper Title: 'Doozy' Deconstructed: Paul Lynde's voicing of Hanna Barbera's animated villains"
"This paper documents the research and animation production processes of my debut feature, Doozy, an essay film - part-animated, part live-action - that investigates the queer-coded casting of closeted American actor Paul Lynde as a number of Hanna Barbera cartoon villains in the late 1960s.
The film utilises a number of distinct techniques to do this, including documentary archive, a gameshow panel of celebrity academics and an original animated villain - Clovis - who re-enacts alleged episodes in the life of Paul Lynde. Whilst Clovis references Hanna Barbera’s iconic 'limited animation' style, he is not an animated Paul Lynde in the conventional sense. Rather, animation is used in Doozy to point to the ways in which sexuality is coded and performed in cartoons, to expose Hollywood’s legacy of queer villainy and to pose the question: where does the character end and the actor begin?
