Abstract
An unaccompanied black adult female at a matinee performance of Song of the South is about as out of place as Big Bird at a cockfight. However, having encouraged the students in my course on black media images to see the film during its fortieth anniversary run, I felt obligated to reexamine it myself. So there I sat, surrounded by exuberant white pre-schoolers and their parents, watching as animation and live action seamlessly interchanged on the screen in Walt Disney’s adaptation for Joel Chandler Harris’ classic collection of Afro-American folktales.
Recommended Citation
Turner, Patricia A.
(1987)
"Reel Blacks: Everything is Not Satisfactual,"
Trotter Review: Vol. 1:
Iss.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/trotter_review/vol1/iss1/6
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