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Mother, Watching Me Grow from Heaven
by Christopher Lehman
Paperback, 109 Pages, Published 2005 by Publishamerica
ISBN-13: 978-1-4137-4130-8, ISBN: 1-4137-4130-4

"Mother, Watching Me Grow from Heaven is the snapshot of a real-life journey that we must all travel at one time or another."






American Animated Cartoons of the Vietnam Era
A Study of Social Commentary in Films And Television Programs, 1961-1973
by Christopher P. Lehman
Paperback, 223 Pages, Published 2006 by Mcfarland & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-7864-2818-2, ISBN: 0-7864-2818-X

"In the first four years of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War (1961-64), Hollywood did not dramatize the current military conflict but rather romanticized earlier ones. Cartoons reflected only previous trends in U.S. culture, and animators comically but patriotically remembered the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and both World Wars. In the early years of military escalation in Vietnam, Hollywood was simply not ready to illustrate Am ..."






A Critical History of Soul Train on Television
by Christopher P. Lehman
Paperback, 231 Pages, Published 2008 by Mcfarland & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-7864-3669-9, ISBN: 0-7864-3669-7

"As a wildly popular local dance show, Soul Train provided a venue for Chicago's soul singers and political activists and gave African American teenagers their first significant chance to see and identify with their peers on television. The subsequent national series garnered even more popularity, establishing producer and host Don Cornelius as one of the most successful pioneers of African American television production. This work discu ..."






American Animated Cartoons of the Vietnam Era
A Study of Social Commentary in Films and Television Programs, 1961-1973
by Christopher P. Lehman
231 Pages, Published 2006 by Mcfarland
ISBN-13: 978-0-7864-5142-5, ISBN: 0-7864-5142-4

"When identifying himself to Woody through song, the hippie brags about avoiding both work and responsibility. In addition, the film presents a generation gap and sides ... for the feature film The Aristocats (1970). In contrast, Ward Kimball capitalized on the success of It's Tough to Be a Bird (1969) by producing and directing the short film Dad, Can IBorrow the Car (1970) and the television series The Mouse Factory in a similar p ..."






The Colored Cartoon
Black Presentation in American Animated Short Films, 1907-1954
by Christopher P. Lehman
Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Massachusetts Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55849-613-2, ISBN: 1-55849-613-0

"From the introduction of animated film in the early 1900s to the 1950s, ethnic humor was a staple of American-made cartoons. Yet as Christopher Lehman shows in this revealing study, the depiction of African Americans in particular became so inextricably linked to the cartoon medium as to influence its evolution through those five decades. He argues that what is in many ways most distinctive about American animation reflects white animat ..."

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