Diversity in Disney Films: Critical Essays on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and Disability
Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural in its filmic fare and its image. From Aladdin and Pocahontas to the Asian American boy Russell in Up, from the first African American princess in The Princess and the Frog to "Spanish-mode" Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 3, Disney films have come to both mirror and influence our increasingly diverse society. This essay collection gathers recent scholarship on representations of diversity in Disney and Disney/Pixar films, not only exploring race and gender, but also drawing on perspectives from newer areas of study, particularly sexuality/queer studies, critical whiteness studies, masculinity studies and disability studies. Covering a wide array of films, from Disney's early days and "Golden Age" to the Eisner era and current fare, these essays highlight the social impact and cultural significance of the entertainment giant.

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Diversity in Disney Films: Critical Essays on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and Disability
Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural in its filmic fare and its image. From Aladdin and Pocahontas to the Asian American boy Russell in Up, from the first African American princess in The Princess and the Frog to "Spanish-mode" Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 3, Disney films have come to both mirror and influence our increasingly diverse society. This essay collection gathers recent scholarship on representations of diversity in Disney and Disney/Pixar films, not only exploring race and gender, but also drawing on perspectives from newer areas of study, particularly sexuality/queer studies, critical whiteness studies, masculinity studies and disability studies. Covering a wide array of films, from Disney's early days and "Golden Age" to the Eisner era and current fare, these essays highlight the social impact and cultural significance of the entertainment giant.

Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural in its filmic fare and its image. From Aladdin and Pocahontas to the Asian American boy Russell in Up, from the first African American princess in The Princess and the Frog to "Spanish-mode" Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 3, Disney films have come to both mirror and influence our increasingly diverse society. This essay collection gathers recent scholarship on representations of diversity in Disney and Disney/Pixar films, not only exploring race and gender, but also drawing on perspectives from newer areas of study, particularly sexuality/queer studies, critical whiteness studies, masculinity studies and disability studies. Covering a wide array of films, from Disney's early days and "Golden Age" to the Eisner era and current fare, these essays highlight the social impact and cultural significance of the entertainment giant.

Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786446018
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date: 01/24/2013
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 315
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Johnson Cheu is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures at Michigan State University in East Lansing. He has published work in disability studies and popular culture, as well as poetry and creative essays.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vi

Introduction: Re-casting and Diversifying Disney in the Age of Globalization Johnson Cheu 1

Section I Beyond the Fairest: Essays on Race and Ethnicity

Cannibals and Coons: Blackness in the Early Days of Walt Disney Kheli R. Willetts 9

Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros: The Representation of Latin America in Disney's "Good Neighbor" Films Karen S. Goldman 23

Mapping the Imaginary: The Neverland of Disney Indians Prajna Parasher 39

A "Vexing Implication": Siamese Cats and Orientalist Mischief-Making Kimiko Akita Rick Kenney 50

White Man's Best Friend: Race and Privilege in Oliver and Company Natchee Blu Barnd 67

Blackness, Bayous and Gumbo: Encoding and Decoding Race in a Colorblind World Sarah E. Turner 83

Section II Traditions and Transformations: Essays on Gender and Sexuality

Fighting the Cold War with Pinocchio, Bambi and Dumbo Danielle Glassmeyer 99

"You the Man, Well, Sorta": Gender Binaries and Liminality in Mulan Gwendolyn Limbach 115

"What Do You Want Me to Do? Dress in Drag and Do the Hula?": Timon and Pumbaa's Alternative Lifestyle Dilemma in The Lion King Gael Sweeney 129

Mean Ladies: Transgendered Villains in Disney Films Amanda Putnam 147

Section III Of Beasts and Innocents: Essays on Disability

"You're a Surprise from Every Angle": Disability, Identity and Otherness in The Hunchback of Notre Dame Martin F. Norden 163

Dopey's Legacy: Stereotypical Portrayals of Intellectual Disability in the Classic Animated Films Karen Schwartz Zana Marie Lutfiyya Nancy Hansen 179

A Place at the Table: On Being Human in the Beauty and the Beast Tradition Tammy Berberi Viktor Berberi 195

Section IV Up and Out: Essays on Reimaginings and New Visions

Is Disney Avant-Garde? A Comparative Analysis of Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Jan Svankmajer's Alice (1989) William Verrone 209

(Indivi)duality in Return to Oz: Reflection and Revision Ana Salzberg 224

Securing the Virtual Frontier for Whiteness in Tron Michael Green 238

A Womb with a Phew! Post-Humanist Theory and Pixar's Wall-E Walter C. Metz 253

Home Is Where the Heart Is: Pixar's Up Dennis Tyler 268

Filmography 285

About the Contributors 293

Index 297

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