Diversity in Disney films : critical essays on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability / edited by Johnson Cheu.

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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.

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• Acknowledgments (p. vi)
• Introduction: Re-casting and Diversifying Disney in the Age of Globalization (p. 1)
• Section I Beyond the Fairest: Essays on Race and Ethnicity
• Cannibals and Coons: Blackness in the Early Days of Walt Disney (p. 9)
• Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros: The Representation of Latin America in Disney's "Good Neighbor" Films (p. 23)
• Mapping the Imaginary: The Neverland of Disney Indians (p. 39)
• A "Vexing Implication": Siamese Cats and Orientalist Mischief-Making (p. 50)
• White Man's Best Friend: Race and Privilege in Oliver and Company (p. 67)
• Blackness, Bayous and Gumbo: Encoding and Decoding Race in a Colorblind World (p. 83)
• Section II Traditions and Transformations: Essays on Gender and Sexuality
• Fighting the Cold War with Pinocchio, Bambi and Dumbo (p. 99)
• "You the Man, Well, Sorta": Gender Binaries and Liminality in Mulan (p. 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 (p. 129)
• Mean Ladies: Transgendered Villains in Disney Films (p. 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 (p. 163)
• Dopey's Legacy: Stereotypical Portrayals of Intellectual Disability in the Classic Animated Films (p. 179)
• A Place at the Table: On Being Human in the Beauty and the Beast Tradition (p. 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) (p. 209)
• (Indivi)duality in Return to Oz: Reflection and Revision (p. 224)
• Securing the Virtual Frontier for Whiteness in Tron (p. 238)
• A Womb with a Phew! Post-Humanist Theory and Pixar's Wall-E (p. 253)
• Home Is Where the Heart Is: Pixar's Up (p. 268)
• Filmography (p. 285)
• About the Contributors (p. 293)
• Index (p. 297)

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