Disney's most notorious film: race, convergence, and the hidden histories of Song of the South

Abstract

* 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

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