The Colored Cartoon: Black Presentation in American Animated Short Films, 1907-1954

by Christopher P. Lehman

Book Overview

From the introduction of animated film in the early 1900s to the 1950s, ethnic humor was a staple of American-made cartoons. Yet as Christopher Lehman shows in this revealing study, the depiction of African Americans in particular became so inextricably linked to the cartoon medium as to influence its evolution through those five decades. He argues that what is in many ways most distinctive about American animation reflects white animators' visual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155849779X
• ISBN13: 9781558497795
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher