{"product_id":"birth-of-an-industry-9780822358527","title":"Birth of an Industry","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicholas 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nicholas Sammond’s study provides a detailed, thoughtful, exhaustively researched examination of the process by which the early animation studios cast about for technical and semiotic models to inform their new art form and drew upon the complex and conflicted vocabulary of blackface minstrelsy to do so.\" -- Christopher J. Smith * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBirth of an Industry\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome addition and valuable contribution to the ongoing academic discussion of the relationship of ethnic tensions to the art and business of animation.\" -- Christopher P. Lehman * African American Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Sammond's impressive \u003ci\u003eBirth of an Industry\u003c\/i\u003e condenses and stretches various links among the evolving art, labor, and business of early animated film.\" -- T. Lindvall * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Moving effortlessly among theories of comedy, critical race theory, performance studies, animation criticism, and both Marxist and Freudian analyses, Sammond has produced a comprehensive study of the rise of American animation.\" -- Diego A. Millan * Studies in American Humor *\u003cbr\u003e\"Few authors . . . have proved minstrelsy's connections to early animation as carefully and convincingly as Nicholas Sammond in his thoughtful text \u003ci\u003eBirth of an Industry\u003c\/i\u003e.\" -- Carmenita Higginbotham * Journal of Southern History *\u003cbr\u003e\"Sammond’s work in \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of An Industry\u003c\/i\u003e is notable and fascinating. . . . By unpacking each component of the production and representation of minstrel animation, Sammond builds the space needed for an insightful discussion.\" -- Niamh Timmons * Journal of Popular Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBirth of an Industry\u003c\/i\u003e offers a timely, valuable, and theoretically distinguished intervention.\" -- Malcolm Cook * Animation *\u003cbr\u003e\"With \u003ci\u003eBirth of an Industry\u003c\/i\u003e, Nicholas Sammond demonstrates that the specter of racialized caricature and its attending performative power dynamics have a longer and more pernicious continuum through which race, industry, and the nation understood and affected one another.\" -- Allyson Nadia Field * Media Industries *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on the Companion Website  ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Biting the Invisible Hand  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Performance  33\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Labor  87\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Space  135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Race  203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. The \"New\" Blackface  267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes  307\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  351\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866013184343,"sku":"9780822358527","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822358527.jpg?v=1722276624","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/birth-of-an-industry-9780822358527","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}