Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: The Disney Desk Podcast
Episode: Disney Though the Decades (20's and 30's): The Princess and the Frog and How Disney Tunes the Jazz Age
Description: As the Disney Desk decided to begin their study of Disney Decades, they decided that they would always leave one episode to discuss how Disney depicts the decade. A piece of art not necessarily made in that decade, but about that decade.To that end, Carter and Sydney spend this week covering Princess and the Frog, the 'real life' fairy tale set in 1920's New Orleans. A somewhat controversial release in 2009, the discourse of the time had much to say about how Disney envisioned the city and how it took on the era of Jim Crow. <...