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Debating Disney : pedagogical perspectives on commercial cinema / edited by Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode.
Van Pelt Library PN1999.W27 D43 2016
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disney, Walt, 1901-1966--Criticism and interpretation.
- Disney, Walt, 1901-1966.
- Walt Disney Company--History.
- Walt Disney Company.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects.
- Animated films--Social aspects.
- Animated films.
- History.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Animated films--Social aspects--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 234 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Pedagogy, the pleasure principle, and American popular culture / Douglas Brode
- Challenging Disney myths / Janet Wasko
- Gender and genre : brains, brawn, and masculine desire in Walt Disney's 20,000 leagues under the sea / James W. Maertens
- The past as product in the present : Disney and the imagineering of histories / Scott Schaffer
- Disney's two Japans / Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
- "With a smile and a song" : Disney and the birth of the American fairytale / Tracey Mollet
- Seeing white : children of color and the Disney fairy-tale Princess / Dorothy L. Hurley
- Seeing black : critical reaction to The princess and the frog (a brief survey) / Shea T. Brode
- 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) / Douglas Brode
- "Savages, savages, barely even human" : Native American representations in Disney films / Myles Russell-Cook
- "Roar!" : representations of gender, sexuailty, and race in Walt Disney's The lion king / Georgia Vraketta
- "A family of wolves I knew" : Disney's civilized animals and the feral child / David Haworth
- "Who's watching the kids?" : caregiving and parenting in Disney films / Jeanne Holcomb, Daniel Fernandez-Baca, and Kenzie Latham
- Cinematic essentialism, political agendas : Walt Disney's Aladdin / Samantha Heydt
- The ambiguous Captain Jack Sparrow : destabilizing gender, politics, and religion in Pirates of the Caribbean / Jennifer E. Porter
- The Disney way of death / Gary Laderman
- Fantasy worlds and Disney girls : Frozen, Brave, and re-imagined twenty-first-century romance / Victoria Amador
- Upon a dream once more : beauty redacted in Disney's readapted classics / Allison Craven
- Deviance in Disney : of crime and the Magic Kingdom / Rebecca Rabison
- Anti-semitism American style and a man named Disney / Douglas Brode.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442266087
- 1442266082
- OCLC:
- 931860508
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