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Book SynopsisGeorge Rodosthenous is Associate Professor in Theatre Directing at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries of the University of Leeds, UK. He is the Artistic Director of the theatre company 'Altitude North' and also works as a freelance director/composer for the theatre.
Trade ReviewAs a contribution to the field, the book provides many interesting insights and departure points for further discussion ... it is gratifying to see Disney musicals attract such scholarly attention. * Studies in Musical Theatre *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: George Rodosthenous (Leeds) PART A DISNEY MUSICALS: ON FILM 1. Music and the Aura of Reality in Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Elizabeth Randell Upton, (University of California, Los Angeles)
2. Medieval “Beauty” and Romantic “Song” in Animated Technirama: Pageantry, Tableau, and Action in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty – Raymond Knapp (University of California, Los Angeles)
3. Mary Poppins: A Precursor of the Matriarchal Musical – Tim Stephenson (University of Leeds)
4. Musicals in the Mirror: Enchanted, Self-Reflexivity, and Disney's Sudden Boldness – Paul Laird (University of Kansas)
PART B DISNEY ADAPTATIONS: ON STAGE AND BEYOND 5. Disney as Broadway Auteur: The Disney Versions of Broadway Musicals for Television in the Late 1990s and Early 2000s – Geoffrey Block (University of Puget Sound)
6. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996): Too far “Out There”? Olaf Jubin – (Regent’s University London)
7. The Lion King:
A Blockbuster Feline on Broadway and Beyond – Barbara Wallace Grossman (Tufts University)
8. Not Only on Broadway: Disney Junior Across the United States – Stacy E. Wolf (Princeton Atelier, Princeton University)?
PART C DISNEY MUSICALS: GENDER AND RACE 9. Dancing toward Masculinity: Newsies and Homosocial Choreography – Aaron C. Thomas (Dartmouth College)
10. ‘We’re All in This Together:’ Being Girls and Boys in High School Musical (2006) - Dominic Symonds (University of Lincoln)
11. ‘I wanna be like you’: Negotiating race, racism and Orientalism in The Jungle Book on stage– Stefanie Jones, Donatella Galella, Catherine Young, and Emily Clark (City University of New York)
12. Ashman’s Aladdin Archive: Queer Orientalism in the Disney Renaissance – Sam Baltimore (Twoson University)
13. “For the first time in forever”: locating Frozen as a feminist Disney musical – Sarah Whitfield (University of Wolverhampton) Bibliography Index
