EP 4 - Dumbo (1941): Otherness, Prejudice, and Excessive Bullying of Literal Babies

In this episode, we discuss: -the question of sexual propriety in a world where babies are literally delivered by storks, -the long history of the denigration of clowns, -a consideration of the feelings of animals being exploited by humans, -an extended deconstruction of what it is to be an elephant and the essence of "elephantness," -an ambivalent engagement with the crows as a depictions of black entertainers in the 1940s, and -the nature of human cruelty and its connection with circus culture.