Table of Contents
Introduction by Kellie Deys and Denise F. Parrillo
Section 1: Maintaining Social Orders
1. “We Don’t Like What We Don’t Understand”: Mob Mentality and Individualism in Beauty and the Beast and The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Kellie Deys
2. Animated Fantasy and Isolation: The Asian Identity Vacuum in Disney’s Constructed Universe by Christopher Maiytt
3. The Magic Island of Seabrook High: Disney Retcons the Civil Rights Movement in High School Musical Descendant Zombies by Aaron Clayton
Section 2: Regulated Worlds of (Resisting) Children
4. Do You Want to Build a Childhood Trauma?: Parental Agency and Authority in Disney’s Frozen by Denise A. Ayo
5. “Because My World Would Be a Wonderland”: Fantasy Circumscription & Adult Constructions of Girlhood in Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953) by Joseph V. Giunta
6. It Isn’t Just His Nose that Grows: Disney’s Pinocchio and the Erotic Afterlives of Errant Boys by Vincent A. Lankewish
Section 3: Challenging Social Constructs
7. Who Can Be Super?: Examining the Shifted Ability Spectrum in The Incredibles by Ethan Faust
8. Risk and Reflexivity in Pixar’s The Incredibles by Francine Rochford
9. Out There: Science Fiction and Surveillance in Pixar’s WALL-E and Up by Farisa Khalid
10. Pixar’s Coco: The Power of Celebrity and its Impact on the Adolescent Mind by Susan Ray
Index
About the Editors and Contributors