Disney's Most Notorious Film : Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South /

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This book examines the racial and convergence histories of Song of the South to offer new insights into how audiences and Disney have negotiated the film's controversies over the last seven decades. The author traces the film's reception history, showing how audience perceptions of SotS ha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sperb, Jason, 1978-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2012]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Walt Disney Productions.
Song of the South (Motion picture)
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.
Race relations in motion pictures.
Motion picture audiences.
Convergence (Telecommunication)
African Americans in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
ART > Film & Video.
Convergence (Telecommunications)
Cinema > Publics > États-Unis.
Stereotypes au cinema.
Noirs americains au cinema.
Relations raciales au cinema.
Motion picture audiences > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Conditions of possibility : the Disney Studios, postwar "thermidor," and the ambivalent origins of Song of the South
  • "Put down the mint julep, Mr. Disney" : postwar racial consciousness and Disney's critical legacy in the 1946 reception of Song of the South
  • "Our most requested movie" : media convergence, Black ambivalence, and the reconstruction of Song of the South
  • A past that never existed : coonskin, post-racial whiteness, and rewriting history in the era of Reaganism
  • On tar babies and honey pots : Splash Mountain, "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah," and the transmedia dissipation of Song of the South
  • Reassuring convergence : new media, nostalgia, and the internet fandom of Song of the South
  • Conclusion.

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