'The Blackest Disney Movie of All Time!': A Goofy Movie and the Production of 'Film Blackness'. (November 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'The Blackest Disney Movie of All Time!': A Goofy Movie and the Production of 'Film Blackness'. (November 2021)
- Main Title:
- 'The Blackest Disney Movie of All Time!': A Goofy Movie and the Production of 'Film Blackness'
- Authors:
- Dial, A. Joseph
- Abstract:
- Disney films have a distinct way of always feeling in-time, a sensation the company understands and monetizes. A Goofy Movie (AGM) was released in 1995, and since its theatrical release, the film has continued to capture the hearts and minds of a cult audience of passionate fans. Among this array of fans is a core of Black millenials who hold the film in high regard due to its R&B soundtrack and relatable narrative. However, the moments of Black representation within the film are less interesting than how a Black reading becomes possible. What are the component parts of the film's making when arranged in such a way that invokes an essential Black lifeworld? AGM affixes Blackness to its form not through any profound representation of race. Rather, considering its animators as technical performers, the dark history behind the American cartoon, and how Black music is used to not just make Blackness known but believable instantiate what Michael Gillespie terms, 'film Blackness' in Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film (2016).
- Is Part Of:
- Animation. Volume 16:Number 3(2021)
- Journal:
- Animation
- Issue:
- Volume 16:Number 3(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 16, Issue 3 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0016-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 126
- Page End:
- 140
- Publication Date:
- 2021-11
- Subjects:
- A Goofy Movie -- animation -- blackface -- Disney -- film blackness -- film studies -- minstrelsy -- representation
Animation (Cinematography) -- Periodicals
Animated films -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
791.433405 - Journal URLs:
- http://anm.sagepub.com ↗
http://firstsearch.oclc.org ↗
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/17468477/ ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/17468477211049352 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1746-8477
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- Legaldeposit
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