Jason Sperb

Disney's Most Notorious Film

Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Analyzing histories of film reception, convergence, and race relations over seven decades, this pioneering book undertakes a superb, multifaceted reading of one of Hollywoodâ s most notorious films, Disneyâ s Song of the South.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780292756779
• ISBN-10: 0292756771
• Artikelnr.: 39741596

Autorenporträt

Jason Sperb is a lecturer in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter 1. Conditions of Possibility: The Disney Studios, Postwar
"Thermidor," and the Ambivalent Origins of Song of the South
* Chapter 2. "Put Down the Mint Julep, Mr. Disney": Postwar Racial
Consciousness and Disney's Critical Legacy in the 1946 Reception of
Song of the South
* Chapter 3. "Our Most Requested Movie": Media Convergence, Black
Ambivalence, and the Reconstruction of Song of the South
* Chapter 4. A Past That Never Existed: Coonskin, Post-racial
Whiteness, and Rewriting History in the Era of Reaganism
* Chapter 5. On Tar Babies and Honey Pots: Splash Mountain,
"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," and the Transmedia Dissipation of Song of the
South
* Chapter 6. Reassuring Convergence: New Media, Nostalgia, and the
Internet Fandom of Song of the South
* Conclusion
* Appendix. Timeline for Song of the South and Its Paratexts
* Notes
* Selected Bibliography
* Index