Walt Disney, from reader to storyteller : essays on the literary inspirations / edited by Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark I. West.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jackson, Kathy Merlock, 1955- editor.

West, Mark I., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Disney, Walt.

Disney, Walt, 1901-1966--Knowledge--Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although Walt Disney is best known as a filmmaker, perhaps his greatest skill and influence was as a reader. While many would have regarded Felix Salten's Bambi and Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio as too somber for family-oriented animated films, he saw possibilities in them. He appealed to his audience by selecting familiar stories, but transformed them to suit audience sensibilities. Many of the tales he chose to adapt to film went on to become the most read books in America, eventually becoming literary classics. Although much published research has addressed his adaptation process--often critici

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Disney's Reading; Walt Disney's Boyhood Response to Stories: The Origin of His Narrative Playfulness (Mark I. West); Walt Disney as Reader and Storyteller: The Books in His Library and What They Mean (Kathy Merlock Jackson); Disney's Narrative Influences: Authors; Snow White, the Grimm Brothers and the Studio the Dwarfs Built (Katie Croxton); Pinocchio: An American Commedia (Lucy Rollin); Felix Salten's Stories: The Portrayal of Nature in Bambi, Perri and The Shaggy Dog (John Wills)

Song of the South and the Politics of Animation (M. Thomas Inge)The Pleasures and Pains of Texts: Kenneth Grahame, Washington Irving and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Walter Squire); The American Revolution and Disney: Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain and the Celebration of Liberty (Martin J. Manning); Old Yeller: From Gipson Tale to Disney Classic (Brenda Greene Shue); Updating Pollyanna for the Space Age (Judy Rosenbaum); The Sentimental Novel: Community, Power and Femininity (Susan Larkin); Disney's Europe: Hans Brinker and The Three Lives of Thomasina (Martin J. Manning)

From Page to Screen: Dysfunction, Subtext and Platonic Idealism in Mary Poppins (Sue Matheson)Hayley Mills and the Constraints of Artifice in That Darn Cat! (Ron DePeter); The Metafictive Playgrounds of Disney's Winnie the Pooh: The Movie Is a Book (Paula T. Connolly); Disney's Narrative Influences: Composers; Summit Meetings: Mickey Mouse's Culture Wars (John C. Tibbetts); Epilogue; Disney and the Tradition of Storytelling (Margaret J. King and J.G. O'Boyle); About the Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4766-1824-0