It's the Disney version! : popular cinema and literary classics /
edited by Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode.
- Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (xvii, 235 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: once upon a time at the movies / "And they lived happily ever after?": Disney's animated adaptation of Snow White and the seven dwarfs (1937) and Fleischers' Gulliver's travels / Marionette as metaphor: Pinocchio and evolving attitudes toward education / Here be gay dragons: queer allegory and Disney's The reluctant dragon / Uncle Walt's Uncle Remus: Disney's distortion of Harris's hero / "Glory in the flower": Disneyfying Bambi / Through the cinematic looking glass: Walt Disney's 1951 animated Alice and Tim Burton's 2010 film / Walt Disney and Robert Louis Stevenson: Haskin's Treasure island or Stevenson's Kidnapped? / Of medieval ballads and movie musicals: Walt Disney and the Robin Hood legend / "Do you believe in fairies?": Peter Pan, Walt Disney, and me / "In God's good time": Walt Disney and 1950s Cold War culture / Perchance to dream: a narrative analysis of Disney's Sleeping beauty / "It's a jungle out there, kid!": Walt Disney and the American 1960s / "Higitus! figitus!": of Merlin and Disney magic / "This is not the Mary Poppins I know!": P.L. Travers goes to Hollywood / The wonderful worlds of Dickens and Disney: animated adaptations of Oliver Twist and A Christmas carol / The tao at Pooh corner: Disney's portrayal of a very philosophical bear / From icon to Disneyfication: a mermaid's aesthetic journey / Pocahontas as Disney princess: history, legend, literature, and movie mythology / "Driven to sin": Victor Hugo's complex vision of humanity in Disney's The hunchback of Notre Dame / The integrity of an ape-man: Burroughs, Disney, and the meaning of the Tarzan myth / Douglas Brode -- David McGowan -- Jean-Marie Apostolides -- Tison Pugh -- Peggy A. Russo -- David Payne -- Sarah Boslaugh -- Scott Allen Nollen -- Shea T. Brode with Douglas Brode -- Elizabeth Bell -- Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Alexis Finnerty with Douglas Brode -- Greg Metcalf -- Susan Aronson -- David S. and Olga Silverman -- Shari Hodges Holt -- Anne Collins Smith and Owen M. Smith -- Finn Hauberg Mortensen -- Kathy Merlock Jackson and Gary Edgerton -- Michael Smith -- Stanley A. Galloway.
"In 1937, the first full-length animated film produced by Walt Disney was released. Based on a fairy tale written by the Brothers Grimm, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was an instant success and set the stage for more film adaptations over the next several decades. From animated features like and Bambi to live action films such as Mary Poppins, Disney repeatedly turned to literary sources for inspiration--a tradition the Disney studios continues well into the twenty-first century. In It's the Disney Version!: Popular Cinema and Literary Classics, Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode have collected essays that consider the relationship between a Disney film and the source material from which it was drawn. Analytic yet accessible, these essays provide a wide-ranging study of the term "The Disney Version" and what it conveys to viewers. Among the works discussed in this volume are Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, Tarzan, and Winnie the Pooh. In these intriguing essays, contributors to this volume offer close textual analyses of both the original work and of the Disney counterpart. Featuring articles that consider both positive and negative elements that can be found in the studio's output, It's the Disney Version!: Popular Cinema and Literary Classics will be of interest to scholars and students of film, as well as the diehard Disney fan." --
9781442266070
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Walt Disney Company--History.
Film adaptations--History and criticism. Motion pictures and literature.