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A Space Apart: Animation and the Spatial Politics of Conversion
- Film History: An International Journal
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 23, Number 3, 2011
- pp. 268-284
- 10.2979/filmhistory.23.3.268
- Article
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Reading cartoons and associated exhibition practices in the silent and early sound eras, this essay examines the expression of the black/white racial binary in American animation of the 1920s and 1930s. It treats cartoons as a case study in the visual representation of the intersection of spatial practice, aesthetics, and labor/management relations in the reorganization of the American film industry during the transition to sound film..