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02840aam a2200385 i 4500 001 DB0FD6A66B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150130t20152015ncua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2015003368 020 $a 0822358522 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780822358527 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 0822358409 (hardcover : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780822358404 (hardcover : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)902986779 040 $a NcD/DLC $b eng $e rda $c STF $d NDD $d DLC $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d HTM $d CDX $d UBY $d CBY $d YDXCP $d COO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a NC1766 U5 S36 2015 100 1 $a Sammond, Nicholas, $d 1960- $e author. 245 10 $a Birth of an industry : $b blackface minstrelsy and the rise of American animation / $c Nicholas Sammond. 264 1 $a Durham : $b Duke University Press, $c 2015. 300 $a xv, 382 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-364) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: biting the invisible hand -- Performance -- Labor -- Space -- Race -- Conclusion: the "new" blackface. 520 $a Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its representation in the cartoons themselves, and how important blackface minstrels were to that performance, standing in for the frustrations of animation workers. Cherished cartoon characters, such as Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat, were conceived and developed using blackface minstrelsy's visual and performative conventions: these characters are not like minstrels; they are minstrels. They play out the social, cultural, political, and racial anxieties and desires that link race to the laboring body, just as live minstrel show performers did. Carefully examining how early animation helped naturalize virulent racial formations, Sammond explores how cartoons used laughter and sentimentality to make those stereotypes seem not only less cruel but actually pleasurable. Although the visible links between cartoon characters and the minstrel stage faded long ago, Sammond shows how important those links are to thinking about animation then and now, and about how cartoons continue to help illuminate the central place of race in American cultural and social life. 650 0 $a Animated films $z United States $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Animation (Cinematography) $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Blackface entertainers. 650 0 $a Minstrel shows. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220602014647.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220419012712.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DB0FD6A66B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search