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It's the Disney Version!: Popular Cinema and Literary Classics
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781442266063 |
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Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
Publication date: | 06/24/2016 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 254 |
Product dimensions: | 6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Once Upon a Time at the Movies Douglas Brode xi
1 "And They Lived Happily Ever After"?: Disney's Animated Adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Fleischer's Gulliver's Travels (1939) David McGowan 1
2 The Perils of a Masculine Upbringing: Pinocchio, from Carlo Collodi to Walt Disney Jean-Marie Apostolidès 13
3 Here Be Gay Dragons: Queer Allegory and Disney's The Reluctant Dragon (1941) Tison Pugh 23
4 Uncle Walt's Uncle Rem us: Disney's Distortion of Harris's Hero Peggy A. Rosso 33
5 "Glory in the Flower": Disneyfying Bambi David Payne 45
6 Through the Cinematic Looking Glass: Walt Disney's 1951 Animated Version and Tim Burton's 2010 Film Sarah Boslaugh 51
7 Walt Disney and Robert Louis Stevenson: Haskin's Treasure Island or Stevenson's Kidnapped? Scott Allen Nollen 61
8 Of Medieval Ballads and Movie Musicals: Walt Disney and the Robin Hood Legend Shea T. Erode Douglas Brode 71
9 "Do You Believe in Fairies?": Peter Pan, Walt Disney, and Me Elizabeth Bell 79
10 "In God's Good Time": Walt Disney and 1950s Cold War Culture Cynthia J. Miller A. Bowdoin Van Riper 93
11 Perchance to Dream: A Narrative Analysis of Disney's Sleeping Beauty Alexis Finnerty Douglas Brode 105
12 "It's a Jungle Book out There, Kid!": Walt Disney and the American 1960s Greg Metcalf 117
13 "Higitus! Figitus!": Of Merlin and Disney Magic Susan Aronstein 129
14 "This Is Not the Mary Poppins I Know!": P. L. Travers Goes to Hollywood David S. Silverman Olga Silverman 141
15 The Wonderful Worlds of Dickens and Disney: Animated Adaptations of Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol Short Hodges Holt 151
16 The Tao at Pooh Corner: Disney's Portrayal of a Very Philosophical Bear Anne Collins Smith Owen M. Smith 165
17 From Icon to Disneyfication: A Mermaid's Aesthetic Journey Finn Hauberg Mortensen 177
18 Pocahontas as Disney Princess: History, Legend, Literature, and Movie Mythology Kathy Merlock Jackson Gary Edgerton 189
19 "Driven to Sin": Victor Hugo's Complex Vision of Humanity in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame Michael Smith 201
20 The Integrity of an Ape-Man: Comparing Disney's Tarzan with Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes Stanley A. Galloway 211
Index 225
About the Editors 229
About the Contributors 231