Diversity in Disney Films by Cheu, Johnson -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Acknowledgments Introduction: Re-casting and Diversifying Disney in the Age of Globalization

Notes Bibliography

SECTION I—BEYOND THE FAIREST: ESSAYS ON RACE AND ETHNICITY

Cannibals and Coons: Blackness in the Early Days of Walt Disney

Wish Upon a Star The Legacy of Caricatured Blackness Here Comes the Rabbit ... I Mean the Mouse Cannibals and Coons Still Wishing Upon a Star Notes Bibliography

Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros: The Representation of Latin America in Disney’s “Good Neighbor” Films

Notes Bibliography

Mapping the Imaginary: The Neverland of Disney Indians

Notes Bibliography

A “Vexing Implication”: Siamese Cats and Orientalist Mischief-Making

The Fictions of Orientalism Situating Disney Previous Studies

Specific Studies The Current Study The Siamese Cat, in Context Asian “Inscrutability” Findings Analysis Legacy

Conclusion Notes Bibliography

White Man’s Best Friend: Race and Privilege in Oliver and Company

Introduction Story Sketch The Dogged Persistence of Race and White Privilege Unleashing Race Same Old Song Conclusion Notes Bibliography

Blackness, Bayous and Gumbo: Encoding and Decoding Race in a Colorblind World

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SECTION II—TRADITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS: ESSAYS ON GENDER AND SEXUALITY

Fighting the Cold War with Pinocchio, Bambi and Dumbo

Bambi Conquers Laos Disney Prepares Southeast Asians to Accept Dooley’s Mission Notes Bibliography

“You the Man, Well, Sorta”: Gender Binaries and Liminality in Mulan

Introduction Honor Through Heterosexuality Reflecting on the Self Making a Man The Agency of Liminality Regendering and Conclusions Notes Bibliography

“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

On the Savannah: Elsinore Versus Broadway Disney Under Siege Performing Meerkat and Warthog “Hakuna Matata”: A Problem-Free Philosophy? Show Tunes and Insect Brunches: How to Be Gay in Disney “Carnivores! Oy!”: Disney and the Jewish Question “Home Is Where Your Rump Rests”: Funny Uncles on Pride Rock Around the World with Timon and Pumbaa Notes Bibliography

Mean Ladies: Transgendered Villains in Disney Films

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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

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Dopey’s Legacy: Stereotypical Portrayals of Intellectual Disability in the Classic Animated Films

Devaluation, Stigma and Devalued Social Roles Iconography of Intellectual Disability The Characters

Snow White’s Dopey Cinderella’s Gus (Octavius) Beauty and the Beast’s Lefou

A Continuing Legacy Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography

A Place at the Table: On Being Human in the Beauty and the Beast Tradition

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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)

Notes Bibliography

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

Producing Fantasy: Disney and Oz Reflection and Embodiment A New Kind of Mirror Through the Looking Glass The Return Notes Bibliography

Securing the Virtual Frontier for Whiteness in Tron

Genre and Representation Cyberpunk and Racial Anxiety Whiteness and Ideology Technology and Representation Conclusion Notes Bibliography

A Womb with a Phew!: Post-Humanist Theory and Pixar’s Wall-E

Wall-E and the Post-Human Spork7 Wall-E and Intertextuality Notes Bibliography

Home Is Where the Heart Is: Pixar’s Up

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Filmography About the Contributors List of Names and Terms

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