Disney's Most Notorious Film (48 page)

26
. Ibid., 18.

27
. Susan Willis, “The Problem with Pleasure,” in Project on Disney,
Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995), 1–11.

28
. James Snead,
White Screens, Black Images: Hollywood from the Dark Side
(New York: Routledge, 1994).

29
. Svetlana Boym,
The Future of Nostalgia
(New York: Basic, 2001), xii, xvi, xiv.

30
. Matthew Bernstein, “Nostalgia, Ambivalence, Irony:
Song of the South
and Race Relations in 1946 Atlanta,”
Film History
8.2 (1996): 219–236.

31
. Miller and Rode, “The Movie You See, the Movie You Don’t,” 86.

32
. Nicholas Sammond,
Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930–1960
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005).

33
. Boym,
Future of Nostalgia
, 351.

34
. Quoted in Hal Boedeker, “Inside That Disney Vault,”
OrlandoSentinel.com
(19 April 2006), accessed 23 February 2008,
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2006/04/inside_that_dis.html
.

35
. “Disney Asks YouTube to Crack Down on Copyright Misuse,”
PC Pro: Computing in the Real World
(30 November 2006), accessed 23 February 2008,
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/99238/disney-asks-youtube-to-crack-down-on-copyright-misuse.html
.

36
. “Racism in Disney,”
YouTube
(2007), accessed 25 April 2009,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LibK0SCpIkk&feature=related
; “Is This Racist?
Song of the South
clip,”
YouTube
(2007), accessed 2 September 2008,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47ak4vjiNzw
.

37
. “Walt Disney’s
Song of the South
,”
YouTube
(2008), accessed 24 July 2009,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrAKhHcZM-Y
. At the time of the latest revision, the entire film was still available.

38
. “Bobby Driscoll in ‘
Song of the South
’—1946,”
YouTube
(2007), accessed 2 September 2008,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1ZvPBHCiBw
. This clip was eventually pulled from the site.

39
. “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah,”
YouTube
(24 July 2007), accessed 30 December 2001,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcxYwwIL5zQ
.

40
. “Uncle Remus’ “Wonderful Tar Baby Story,”
YouTube
(2007), accessed 2 September 2008,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiuZQxYR9uU
.

41
. Quoted in Jaime Weinman, “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Don’t Mention It,”
Maclean’s
(14 May 2007), 63.

42
. Roger Ebert, “Movie Answer Man,”
RogerEbert.com
(13 February 2000), accessed 31 July 2008,
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000213/ANSWERMAN/2130305/1023
.

43
. Merlin Jones, “In Defense of Disney’s Uncle Remus,”
SongoftheSouth.net
(21 January 2005), accessed 31 July 2008,
http://www.songofthesouth.net/news/archives/savedisney-indefense.html
.

44
. As of winter 2012.

45
. Dyer,
Only Entertainment
, 18.

46
. Ibid.

47
. Douglas Brode,
Multiculturalism and the Mouse: Race and Sex in Disney Entertainment
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005), 61–62.

48
. Ibid., 61.

49
. Ibid., 256.

50
. Victor Burgin,
The Remembered Film
(London: Reaktion, 2004).

51
. Brode,
Multiculturalism and the Mouse
, 256.

52
. Bernstein, “Nostalgia, Ambivalence, Irony,” 231.

53
. Bill Vaughn, “My Year in the Dark: Song of the South Isn’t the Greatest Film Ever Made, but It’s the One I’ll Never Forget,”
Reports from the Dark Acres
(2006), accessed 16 May 2008,
http://darkacres.com/SongOfSouth_jump.html
.

54
. A recent fictional short story also focused on the film’s relationship to a little child in the 1940s dealing with her own parents’ impending separation. See Bret Lott, “
Song of the South
,”
Georgia Review
58.4 (2004): 765–774.

55
. Vaughn, “My Year in the Dark.”

56
. Jenkins,
Convergence Culture
.

CONCLUSION

1
. Jaime Weinman, “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Don’t Mention It,”
Maclean’s
(14 May 2007), 63.

2
. Mike Clark, “Now on DVD,”
USA Today
(1 February 2008), 6D.

3
. Weinman, “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Don’t Mention It,” 63.

4
. Earl Hutchinson, “Disney Sings Dollars and Racism with
Song of the South
,”
Miami Times
(22 May 2007), 3A.

5
. J. P. Telotte, “
Song of the South
,”
Quarterly Review of Film and Video
27.5 (2010): 392.

6
. Leonard Maltin,
The Disney Films
, 2nd ed. (New York: Crown, 1984), 78.

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