{"product_id":"forgotten-disney-9781476689395","title":"Forgotten Disney","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   This work demonstrates that not everything that Disney touched turned to gold. In its first 100 years, the company had major successes that transformed filmmaking and culture, but it also had its share of unfinished projects, unmet expectations, and box-office misses. Some works failed but nevertheless led to other more stunning and lucrative ones; others shed light on periods when the Disney Company was struggling to establish or re-establish its brand. In addition, many Disney properties, popular in their time but lost to modern audiences, emerge as forgotten gems. By exploring the studio''s missteps, this book provides a more complex portrayal of the history of the company than one would gain from a simple recounting of its many hits. With essays by writers from across the globe, it also asserts that what endures or is forgotten varies from person to person, place to place, or generation to generation. What one dismisses, someone else recalls with deep fondness as a magical Di\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKathy Merlock Jackson, Carl H. Sederholm, and Mark I. West\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Golden Touch (1935): ­Re-Examining the Satirical Merits of Walt Disney's Alleged Directorial Misfire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrennan Thomas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Plausible Impossible in Walt Disney's Thru the Mirror (1936)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJan Susina\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMickey \u0026amp; Co. Enlist: Disney's World War II Animated Shorts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaula T. Connolly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVictory Through Air Power (1943): How Walt Disney Planned to Win the\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmily Sullivan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoald Dahl, Walt Disney, and The Gremlins: The Story of an Unfinished Film\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMark I. West\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Simple Love Story in the Labyrinth of Time: The Impossible Quest of Destino\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrancesca Arnavas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMake Mine Music (1946): The Music Program Feature and Its Relevance to Pixar\/Disney Shorts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJacki Fitzpatrick\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e­Anti-Urbanism, Environmental Degradation, and Solastalgia in The Little House (1952)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHadas Marcus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Whale of a Tale: Disney Theme Park Iterations of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCarissa Baker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWalt Disney's Tonka (1958): Another Casualty of Little Bighorn?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJames Plath\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLatinos, Morality, and Walt Disney: The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca (abc, 1958–1960)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSue Matheson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWalt Disney Beyond the Barnyard: From Mickey's Kangaroo (1935) to Nature's Strangest Creatures (1959)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDerham Groves\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisney's Abandoned Rainbow Road to\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDina Schiff Massachi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWalt Disney's Babes in Toyland (1961): Flawed Forerunner to Better Things\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKathy Merlock Jackson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCareful Conservation: The ­Gnome-Mobile (1967) as ­Eco-Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMartin Woodside\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Small One (1976) and Its ­Not-So-Small Legacy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChristian Renaut\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Unlikely Casting of Bette Davis in Return from Witch Mountain (1978) and The Watcher in the Woods (1980)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCarl H. Sederholm and Kathy Merlock Jackson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHorizons: The Future That Never Was and Disney's Extinct Attractions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAndrew J. Friedenthal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom the Bathhouse to the House of Mouse: Bette Midler's Tenure with Disney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeter Piatkowski\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Financial Fable: The Rise and Fall of Disney Comics, 1990–1993\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeter Cullen Bryan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTeacher's Pet (2004): Looking Askew in the Warped World of Disney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJonathan Winchell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecalling the Details of Forgotten Disney Theme Park Attractions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBobby Schweizer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\t\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCamille McCutcheon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49530693157207,"sku":"9781476689395","price":34.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476689395.jpg?v=1731880190","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/forgotten-disney-9781476689395","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}