Nicholas Sammond: 2 books
Birth of an Industry
Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
In Birth of an Industry, 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...
Babes in Tomorrowland
Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930–1960
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2005
Linking Margaret Mead to the Mickey Mouse Club and behaviorism to Bambi, Nicholas Sammond traces a path back to the early-twentieth-century sources of “the normal American child.” He locates the origins of this hypothetical child in the interplay between developmental science and popular media....