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Book SynopsisThe first critical study of Disney films.
Trade Review"... a wealth of local insights into many specific Disney projects, from their animated classics up to and including their work produced and distributed under their various other corporate names ..." - American Quarterly "The Disney book with a difference! ...These tightly structured and passionately but thoughtfully argued points should provoke lively debate..." - Brave New World
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Walt's in the Movies—Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, and Laura Sells
Section I: Sanitizations/Disney Film as Cultural Pedagogy
Breaking the Disney Spell—Jack Zipes
Memory and Pedagogy in the "Wonderful World of Disney": Beyond the Politics of Innocence—Henry A. Giroux
Pinocchio—Claudia Card
Disney Does Dutch: Billy Bathgate and the Disneyficationof the Gangster Genre—Robert Haas
The Movie You See, The Movie Don't: How Disney Do's That Old Time Derision—Susan Miller and Greg Rode
Section II: Contestations/Disney Film as Gender Construction
Somatexts at the Disney Shop: Constructing the Pentimentos of Women's Animated Bodies—Elizabeth Bell
"The Whole Wide World was Scribbed Clean": The Androcentric Animation of Denatured Disney—Patrick D. Murphy
Bambi—David Payne
Beyond Captain Nemo: Disney's Science Fiction—Brian Attebery
The Curse of Masculinity: Disney's Beauty and the Beast—Susan Jeffords
Section III: Erasures/Disney Film as Identity Politics
"Where Do The Mermaids Stand?"Voice and Body in The Little Mermaid—Laura Sells
"Eighty-Six the Mother": Murder, Matricide, and Good Mothers—Lynda Haas
Spinsters in Sensible Shoes: Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks—Chris Cuomo
Pretty Woman Through the Triple Lens of Black Feminist Spectatorship—D.Soyini Madison
Pachuco Mickey—Ramona Fernancez
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