Nicholas Sammond

Gebundenes Buch

Birth of an Industry

Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation

Beschreibung

Nicholas Sammond argues that early cartoons are a key components to blackface minstrelsy and that cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat are not like minstrels, but are minstrels. Cartoons have played on racial anxieties, naturalized racial formations, committed symbolic racial violence, and help perpetuate blackface minstrelsy.

Autor

Nicholas Sammond is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-60, and the editor of Steel Chair to the Head: Essays on Professional Wrestling, both also published by Duke University Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780822358404
• ISBN-10: 0822358409
• Artikelnr.: 42130405