Sign in or register
for additional privileges

Birth of An Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation

Nicholas Sammond, Author

You appear to be using an older verion of Internet Explorer. For the best experience please upgrade your IE version or switch to a another web browser.

Space, Page 146

The Fleischers' Vaudeville (1924) begins with an unknown hand that draws the outline of Ko-Ko the Clown, who then waits impatiently until the he and his background are filled in.

The Fleischers had long celebrated vaudeville, and attempted to mount stage versions of some of their more popular shorts and created sing-along cartoons for vaudeville and movie houses.

In addition to its self-reflexivity, this cartoon also borrows another quality from vaudeville: it plays with race and ethnicity through social and cultural conventions/stereotypes.
Comment on this page
 

Discussion of "Space, Page 146"

Add your voice to this discussion.

Checking your signed in status ...

Previous page on path Space, page 5 of 36 Next page on path

Related:  Performance, Page 47Labor, Page 88Labor, Page 132Space, Page 172Race, Page 253Performance, Page 74Labor, Page 133Conclusion, Page 278Race, Page 247Space, Page 190Labor, Page 98Space, Page 189Race, Page 251Conclusion, Page 296Race, Page 206Race, Page 221Labor, Page 119Race, Page 239Race, Page 261Space, Page 178Space, Page 156Performance, Page 46Labor, Page 110Space, Page 197Space, Page 155Space, Page 150Conclusion, Page 292Conclusion, Page 275Performance, Page 72Performance, Page 84Race, Page 248Space, Page 152Labor, Page 123Conclusion, Page 300Conclusion, Page 289Performance, Page 82Race, Page 220Introduction, Page 6Space, Page 182Space, Page 148Performance, Page 52Labor, Page 122Race, Page 258Conclusion, Page 290Performance, Page 41Race, Page 232Performance, Page 45Race, Page 254Performance, Page 35Race, Page 229Space, Page 175Conclusion, Page 298Introduction, Page 2Introduction, Page 29Performance, Page 70Labor, Page 109Space, Page 188Space, Page 177Race, Page 231Introduction, Page 30Performance, Page 77Introduction, Page 14Conclusion, Page 302Performance, Page 54Space, Page 162Performance, Page 42Race, Page 204Conclusion, Page 286Race, Page 252Labor, Page 113Race, Page 224Labor, Page 96Race, Page 230Conclusion, Page 291Conclusion, Page 284Labor, Page 129Labor, Page 128Space, Page 193Performance, Page 60Space, Page 138Labor, Page 112Introduction, Page 21Race, Page 225Space, Page 141Performance, Page 50Performance, Page 43Performance, Page 44Labor, Page 101Space, Page 194Space, Page 187Space, Page 166Space, Page 165Space, Page 143Race, Page 235Conclusion, Page 303Introduction, Page 1Labor, Page 97Conclusion, Page 304Space, Page 181Introduction, Page 4Performance, Page 34Space, Page 184Space, Page 183Conclusion, Page 273Labor, Page 126Space, Page 163Space, Page 170Race, Page 213Introduction, Page 23Labor, Page 115Space, Page 191