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Title:

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

Publisher:

Rowman & Littlefield,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xviii, 234 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Disney, Walt,--1901-1966--Criticism and interpretation.
Walt Disney Company--History.
Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States.
Animated films--Social aspects--United States.

Other Authors:

Brode, Douglas, 1943- editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80023531
Brode, Shea T., 1984- editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014080166

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

1442266082
9781442266087

OCLC:

(OCoLC)931860508

LCCN:

2015043567

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)