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Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930–1960
Nicholas Sammond
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Description for Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930–1960
Paperback. Examines the place of Disney in the changing construction of childhood in mid-twentieth-century America Num Pages: 488 pages, 36 b&w illus. BIC Classification: GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 236 x 31. Weight in Grams: 720.
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 shaped by the media it consumes would lead one to believe. Focusing on the products of the Walt Disney company, Sammond demonstrates that without a vision of a normal ... Read more
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 shaped by the media it consumes would lead one to believe. Focusing on the products of the Walt Disney company, Sammond demonstrates that without a vision of a normal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822334637
SKU
V9780822334637
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About Nicholas Sammond
Nicholas Sammond is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the editor of Steel Chair to the Head: The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews for Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930–1960
“Babes in Tomorrowland is a phenomenally accomplished work. The coverage is encyclopedic, the argument masterful, and the prose consistently accessible and engaging. The amount of research is nothing short of monumental. There is no question that the book will make a significant impact on anyone working on contemporary children’s culture.”—Henry Jenkins, editor of The Children’s Culture Reader “Babes in Tomorrowland ... Read more