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Debating Disney : pedagogical perspectives on commercial cinema / edited by Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Brode, Douglas, 1943- (Editor), Brode, Shea T., 1984- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, 2016.
Subjects:
Walt Disney Company > History.
Disney, Walt, > 1901-1966 > Criticism and interpretation.
Disney, Walt, > 1901-1966.
Walt Disney Company.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States.
Animated films > Social aspects > United States.
Animated films > Social aspects.
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: pleasure, pedagogy, and popular culture / Douglas Brode
  • A less than wonderful "world": challenging Disney myths / Janet Wasko
  • 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 / Scott Schaeffer
  • Changing people, altering places: Disney's two Japans / Cynthia J. Miller & A. Bowdoin Van Riper
  • "With a smile and a song": Walt Disney and the birth of the American fairytale / Tracy Mollet
  • Seeing white: children of color and the Disney fairy tale: Princess / Dorothy l. Hurley
  • Seeing black: critical reactions to The princess and the frog / 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 Wonderful world of nature / David Haworth
  • "Who's watching the kids?": caregiving and parenting in Disney films / Jeanne Holcomb, Daniel Fernandez-Baca, and Kenzic Lathau
  • Cinematic existentialism, political agendas: Walt Disney's Aladdin / Samantha Heydt
  • The ambiguous Captain Jack Sparrow: destabilizing gender, politics, and religion in Pirates of the Caribbean / Jennifer Porter
  • "Death be not proud": the "Final curtain" in Disney Entertainment / Gary Laderman
  • Fantasy worlds and Disney girls: frozen, brave, and re-imagined 21st century romance / Victoria Amador
  • Upon a dream once more: beauty redacted in Disney's re-adapted 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.

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