>The race issue (as well as the homophobia with Scar & general conservative
>& patriarchal politics on The Lion King) has been addressed in a number of
>popular press articles as well as some conference papers.  It will be gone
>over again, hopefully using a different and useful angle, in a paper I'm
>giving at the upcoming Society for Animation Studies conference in Madison
>at the end of September.  As far as I know, there's been nothing academic
>published on the topic, though there's an article in Camera Obscura #31 by
>Erin Addison on race & gender in Aladdin.  Besides that, there's little
>focusing on animation & race, an issue that my conference paper grapples
>with (plug plug plug!).
>
>-Jason Mittell
>
It sounds fascinating to me.  Will your paper be published?  If so, when
and where?
 
Many thanks, and good luck at the conference (BTW-Does this conference have
proceedings- I'm new to the area...)
 
Emily Davies
 
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