Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960

by Nicholas Sammond

Book Overview

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. In the process, he shows that the relationship between the media and the child has long been much more symbiotic than arguments that the child is irrevocably...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822334631
• ISBN13: 9780822334637
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"