Debating Disney : pedagogical perspectives on commercial cinema / edited by Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode. - Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xviii, 234 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: pleasure, pedagogy, and popular culture / A less than wonderful "world": challenging Disney myths / Gender and genre: brains, brawn, and masculine desire in Walt Disney's science fiction classic science-fiction film -- James W. Maertens -- The past as product in the present: Disney and the imagineering of history / Changing people, altering places: Disney's two Japans / "With a smile and a song": Walt Disney and the birth of the American fairytale / Seeing white: children of color and the Disney fairy tale: Princess / Seeing black: critical reactions to The princess and the frog / Objectivism versus altruism -- a choice of heroes for the 1950s: Stanley Kramer's High noon (1952) and Walt Disney's Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier (1954-1955) / "Savages, savages, barely even human": native American representations in Disney films / "Roar!": representations of gender, sexuailty, and race in Walt Disney's The lion king / "A family of wolves I knew": Disney's Wonderful world of nature / "Who's watching the kids?": caregiving and parenting in Disney films / Cinematic existentialism, political agendas: Walt Disney's Aladdin / The ambiguous Captain Jack Sparrow: destabilizing gender, politics, and religion in Pirates of the Caribbean / "Death be not proud": the "Final curtain" in Disney Entertainment / Fantasy worlds and Disney girls: frozen, brave, and re-imagined 21st century romance / Upon a dream once more: beauty redacted in Disney's re-adapted classics / Deviance in Disney: of crime and the magic kingdom / Anti-semitism, American style and a man named Disney / Douglas Brode -- Janet Wasko -- Scott Schaeffer -- Cynthia J. Miller & A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Tracy Mollet -- Dorothy l. Hurley -- Shea T. Brode -- Douglas Brode -- Myles Russell-Cook -- Georgia Vraketta -- David Haworth -- Jeanne Holcomb, Daniel Fernandez-Baca, and Kenzic Lathau -- Samantha Heydt -- Jennifer Porter -- Gary Laderman -- Victoria Amador -- Allison Craven -- Rebecca Rabison -- Douglas Brode.



9781442266094

2021677148


Disney, Walt, 1901-1966 --Criticism and interpretation.


Walt Disney Company--History.


Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States.
Animated films--Social aspects--United States.


Electronic Books.

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