Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Conditions of possibility: the Disney Studios, postwar "thermidor," and the ambivalent origins of Song of the South
  • "Put down the mint julep, Mr. Disney": postwar racial consciousness and Disney's critical legacy in the 1946 reception of Song of the South
  • "Our most requested movie": media convergence, black ambivalence, and the reconstruction of Song of the South
  • A past that never existed: coonskin, post-racial whiteness, and rewriting history in the era of Reaganism
  • On tar babies and honey pots: Splash Mountain, "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah," and the transmedia dissipation of Song of the South
  • Reassuring convergence: new media, nostalgia, and the internet fandom of Song of the South
  • Conclusion.