Discussing Disney

by Amy M. Davis (Editor)

Overview

By looking at Disney from some of its many angles - the history and the persona of its founder, a selection of its films (from the blockbuster successes to the less than successful), its approaches to animation, its branding and fandom, and the ways that it has been understood and reinterpreted within popular culture -

it is hoped that Discussing Disney offers its readers (and the field of Disney Studies) a more holistic understanding of a company that is arguably one of the most important forces within culture - popular or otherwise - within (so far) the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780861969616
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	03/12/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	259
Sales rank:	643,831
File size:	721 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Amy M. Davis is a lecturer in Film History at the University of Hull, where she teaches (amongst other things) American Animation History and Disney Studies. She is the author of Good Girls & Wicked Witches: Women in Disney'a Feature Animation and Handsome Heroes & Vile Villains: Men in Disney's Feature Animation, in addition to numerous papers on Disney, Hollywood Animation, and Horror.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction. Amy M. Davis

I. History

1. Dorene S. Koehler, A Return to 2719 Hyperion Avenue: Walt Disney as Archetypal Trickster

2. Joshua M. Hollands, Animating America

3. Alexander Sergeant, High Fantasy Disney: Recontextualising The Black Cauldron

II. Inside the Studio

4. Noel Brown,

5. Helen Haswell, Fix it Felix! Reviving Disney Animation using the Pixar Formula

6. Christopher Holliday, Let it go? Towards a

III. Gender

7. Lauren L. Smith, The Meaning within Characters

8. Oliver Lindman, From Operatic Uniformity to Upbeat Eclecticism: The Musical Evolution of the Princess in Disney

9. Kodi Maier, Princess Brides and Dream Weddings: Investigating the Gendered Narrative of Disney

10. Catherine Lester, Frozen Hearts and Fixer-Uppers: Villainy, Gender, and Female Companionship in Disney

IV. Outside the Studio

11. Jemma D. Gilboy, The Violentest Place on Earth: Adventures in Censorship, Nostalgia, and Pastiche (or, The Simpsons Do Disney)

12. Chris Pallant, Disney Pluralism: Beyond Disney-Formalism