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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sammond, Nicholas

Titel

INTRODUCTION: BITING THE INVISIBLE HAND

Ist Teil von

• Birth of an Industry, 2015, p.1

Ort / Verlag

United States: Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A tattered, makeshift curtain rises on a ragtag troupe of blackface minstrels preparing to offer their interpretation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin to a rural audience in a converted barn. So begins Mickey’s Mellerdrammer (Disney, 1933), a telling artifact from early twentieth-century American popular culture.¹ In this cartoon short, Walt Disney Productions’ wildly popular new star joins his “girlfriend,” Minnie Mouse, and friends Goofy, Clarabelle Cow, and Horace Horsecollar in an amateur production of the classic abolitionist tale. As with many other versions of Stowe’s melodrama staged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the cartoon’s racial