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The Colored Cartoon Black Presentation in American Animated Short Films, 1907-1954 / Christopher P. Lehman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lehman, Christopher P.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people in motion pictures.
- Animated films--United States--History and criticism.
- Animated films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (154 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Christopher Lehman traces the evolution of racial caricatures in American cartoons during the first half of the 20th century. He shows how the depiction of African Americans in particular became so inextricably linked to the cartoon medium as to influence its evolution through five decades from the 1900s to the 1950s.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Blackness of animation
- The silent era
- The arrival of sound
- Black characterizations
- Fred "Tex" Avery and "Trickster" animation
- Black representation and World War II political concerns
- African American representation and changing race relations
- United productions and the end of animated Black representation
- Conclusion: The legacy of animated African American expression.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-131) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-119-8
- OCLC:
- 794701592
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