Disney's most notorious film
Subtitle: race, convergence, and the hidden histories of Song of the South
By: by Jason Sperb
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780292739741
Subjects: Motion picture audiences; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures; Walt Disney Productions; African Americans in motion pictures; Convergence (Telecommunication); Song of the South (Motion picture); Race relations in motion pictures
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Conditions of possibility: the Disney Studios, postwar "thermidor," and the ambivalent origins of Song of the South; title: "Put down the mint julep, Mr. Disney": postwar racial consciousness and Disney's critical legacy in the 1946 reception of Song of the South; title: "Our most requested movie": media convergence, black ambivalence, and the reconstruction of Song of the South; title: A past that never existed: coonskin, post-racial whiteness, and rewriting history in the era of Reaganism; title: On tar babies and honey pots: Splash Mountain, "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah," and the transmedia dissipation of Song of the South; title: Reassuring convergence: new media, nostalgia, and the internet fandom of Song of the South; title: Conclusion.