“Song of the South” remains the most controversial film ... even before the dated racial politics of classic movies returned heavily to discussion around the Black Lives Matter movement ...

To say that Disney’s Song of the South is controversial would be an understatement. The 1946 film, which features both live action and animated sequences, has been criticized for its racist ...

This continues Disney's longstanding trend of not releasing the movie, long accused of being racist, onto home entertainment platforms. The last time Song of the South was released officially was ...

Yet the movie, still beloved by many, lives on. “Song of the South” is easily viewed on the internet either in whole or in pieces, and numerous websites offer versions of the movie or ...

While the stories of Br’er Rabbit, Br’er Fox, and Br’er Bear are animated, Song of the South is still very much a live action movie. The animated sequences cover no more than about 20 ...

It all depends on the content.” Todd Boyd, a professor of cinema and media studies at the University of Southern California, saw Song of the South in a movie theater when he was a child in the ...

the 1946 animated and live-action musical “Song of the South,” which is based on “Uncle Remus,” a collection of African American folklore. The movie has garnered controversy dating back to ...

Disney is closing its iconic ride Splash Mountain on Monday, January 23. The movie behind the ride, "Song of the South," was criticized for its depiction of Black Americans in a post-slavery era.

who Walt hired to script the movie. Walt courted Rapf by claiming his left-leaning humanism was exactly what Song of the South needed, to keep the film from the very stereotypes it wound up ...

By the time Disney announced the Song of the South-themed attraction in 1987, the movie’s reputation as a racist vestige of an earlier time had already been cemented. That new concept?