The integrity of an ape-man : comparing Disney's Tarzan with Burrough's Tarzan of the apes / Stanley A. Galloway. "And they lived happily ever after?" : Disney's animated adaptation of Snow White and the seven dwarfs (1937) and Fleischers' Gulliver's travels (1939) / David McGowan -- The perils of a masculine upbringing : Pinocchio from Carlo Collodi to Walt Disney / Jean-Marie ApostolideĢs -- Here be gay dragons : queer allegory and Disney's The reluctant dragon (1941) / Tison Pugh -- Zip-a-dee-doo-dah : the re-enslavement of Uncle Remus / Peggy A. Russo -- "Glory in the flower" : Disneyfying Bambi / David Payne -- Through the cinematic looking glass : Walt Disney's 1951 animated version and Tim Burton's 2010 film / Sarah Boslaugh -- Walt Disney and Robert Louis Stevenson : Haskin's Treasure island or Stevenson's Kidnapped? / Scott Allen Nollen -- Of medieval ballads and movie musicals : Walt Disney and the Robin Hood legend / Shea T. Brode with Douglas Brode -- "Do you believe in fairies?" : Peter Pan, Walt Disney, and me / Elizabeth Bell -- "In God's good time" : 20,000 leagues under the sea and Cold War culture / Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Perchance to dream : a narrative analysis of Disney's Sleeping beauty / Alexis Finnerty with Douglas Brode -- "It's a jungle out there, kid!" : Walt Disney and the American 1960s / Greg Metcalf -- "Higitus! figitus!" : of Merlin and Disney magic / Susan Aronstein -- "This is not the Mary Poppins I know!" : P.L. Travers goes to Hollywood / David S. Silverman and Olga Silverman -- The wonderful worlds of Dickens and Disney : animated adaptations of Oliver Twist and A Christmas carol / Shari Hodges Holt -- The tao at Pooh corner : Disney's portrayal of a very philosophical bear / Anne Collins Smith and Owen M. Smith -- From icon to Disneyfication : a mermaid's aesthetic journey / Finn Hauberg Mortensen -- Disney's Pocahontas : history, legend, and movie mythology / Gary Edgerton and Kathy Merlock Jackson -- "Driven to sin" : Victor Hugo's complex vision of humanity in Disney's The hunchback of Notre Dame / Michael Smith -- The integrity of an ape-man : comparing Disney's Tarzan with Burrough's Tarzan of the apes / Stanley A. Galloway.
Summary:
"In 1937, the first full-length animated film produced by Walt Disney was released. Based on a fairy tale written by the Brothers Grimm, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was an instant success and set the stage for more film adaptations over the next several decades. From animated features like and Bambi to live action films such as Mary Poppins, Disney repeatedly turned to literary sources for inspiration--a tradition the Disney studios continues well into the twenty-first century. In It's the Disney Version!: Popular Cinema and Literary Classics, Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode have collected essays that consider the relationship between a Disney film and the source material from which it was drawn. Analytic yet accessible, these essays provide a wide-ranging study of the term "The Disney Version" and what it conveys to viewers. Among the works discussed in this volume are Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, Tarzan, and Winnie the Pooh. In these intriguing essays, contributors to this volume offer close textual analyses of both the original work and of the Disney counterpart. Featuring articles that consider both positive and negative elements that can be found in the studio's output, It's the Disney Version!: Popular Cinema and Literary Classics will be of interest to scholars and students of film, as well as the diehard Disney fan." -- Publisher's description
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