Diversity in Disney films : critical essays on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability

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Section I: Beyond The Fairest: Essays on Race and Ethnicity: Cannibals and Coons: Blackness in the Early Days of Walt Disney / Kheli R. Willetts -- Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros: The Representation of Latin America in Disney's "Good Neighbor" Films / Karen S. Goldman -- Mapping the Imaginary: The Neverland of Disney Indians / Prajna Parasher -- A "Vexing Implication": Siamese Cats and Orientalist Mischief-Making / Kimiko Akita and Rick Kenney -- White Man's Best Friend: Race and Privilege in Oliver and Company / Natchee Blu Barnd -- Blackness, Bayous and Gumbo: Encoding and Decoding Race in a Colorblind World / Sarah E. Turner -- Section II: Traditions and Transformations: Essays on Gender and Sexuality: Fighting the Cold War with Pinocchio, Bambi and Dumbo / Danielle Glassmeyer -- "You the Man, Well, Sorta": Gender Binaries and Liminality in Mulan / Gwendolyn Limbach -- "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 -- Mean Ladies: Transgendered Villains in Disney Films / Amanda Putnam -- 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 -- Dopey's Legacy: Stereotypical Portrayals of Intellectual Disability in the Classic Animated Films / Karen Schwartz, Zana Marie Lut fiyya and Nancy Hansen -- A Place at the Table: On Being Human in the Beauty and the Beast Tradition / Tammy Berberi and Viktor Berberi -- 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 -- (Indivi)duality in Return to Oz: Reflection and Revision / Ana Salzberg -- Securing the Virtual Frontier for Whiteness in Tron / Michael Green -- A Womb with a Phew!: Post-Humanist Theory and Pixar's Wall-E / Walter C. Metz -- Home Is Where the Heart Is: Pixar's Up / Dennis Tyler

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