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Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation
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 ... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2015 -
Steel Chair to the Head: The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling
The antagonists--oiled, shaved, pierced, and tattooed; the glaring lights; the pounding music; the shouting crowd: professional wrestling is at once spectacle, sport, and business. Steel Chair to the Head provides a multifaceted look at the popular phenomenon of pro wrestling. The contributors com... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2005 -
Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960
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... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2005 -
Abjection Incorporated: Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence
From the films of Larry Clark to the feminist comedy of Amy Schumer to the fall of Louis C. K., comedic, graphic, and violent moments of abjection have permeated twentieth- and twenty-first-century social and political discourse. The contributors to Abjection Incorporated move beyond simple critique... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2019 -
Keywords for Comics Studies (Keywords)
by Andrew Hoberek • Shelley Streeby • Jared Gardner • Scott Bukatman • Darieck Scott • Nicholas Sammond • Mimi Thi Nguyen • Cathy Schlund-Vials • Frederick Luis Aldama • Bart Beaty • Rebecca Wanzo • Blair Davis • Tahneer Oksman • Michael Chaney • Jonathan W. Gray • Benjamin Woo • Ian Gordon • Stacey Robinson • Frank Bramlett • Adam L. Kern • Yetta Howard • Brannon Costello • Charles Hatfield • José Alaniz • Gregory Steirer • Aaron Kashtan • Deborah Elizabeth Whaley • Alexandro Segade • Amy Kiste Nyberg • André Carrington • Anthony Michael D’Agostino • Barbara Postema • Benjamin Saunders • Carol L. Tilley • Christopher Pizzino • Christopher Spaide • Cáel M. Keegan • Ellen Kirkpatrick • Enrique García • Ian Blechschmidt • Isabel Millán • Jessica Quick Stark • Joo Ok Kim • Joshua Abraham Kopin • Justin Hall • Leah Misemer • Margaret Galvan • Matt Silady • Michael Mark Cohen • Nicholas Yanes • Osvaldo Oyola • Phil Jimenez • Sara Biggs Chaney • Sean Guynes • Susan KirtleyIntroduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studiesAcross more than fifty original essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The essay... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2021 -
Lime, The: Botany, Production and Uses (Botany, Production and Uses)
by W Ahmed • M A Ali • G Almaguer-Vargas • A M Al-Saidi • A Al-Maskary • U Ammara • C F Aquino • N Cruz-Huerta • D L Siqueira • P Donkersley • S L Elliot • A A Farooque • F García-Sánchez • V Gimeno • V González-Hernández • M A Hanif • R Janke • M L Keremane • A S Khan • Y Z Liu • B S Marquez • J J Martínez-Nicolás • A Nasehi • M A Nawaz • S Padmanabhan • R B Queiroz • C Ramadugu • I Ramírez-Ramírez • M F Razi • M L Roose • L C Salomão • A W Schumann • R W Scora • S Simón-Grao • Z Singh • A K Srivastava • M Usman • M Waly • Q U ZamanThe lime is an important fruit crop throughout the citrus producing regions of the world, with its own specific benefits and issues affecting successful cultivation and production. Limes: Botany, Production and Uses covers the breeding, genetics and biodiversity of the plants, and explains the p... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2017