| Description |
xi, 264 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Walt's in the Movies / Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas and Laura Sells -- 1. Breaking the Disney Spell / Jack Zipes -- 2. Memory and Pedagogy in the "Wonderful World of Disney": Beyond the Politics of Innocence / Henry A. Giroux -- 3. Pinocchio / Claudia Card -- 4. Disney Does Dutch: Billy Bathgate and the Disneyfication of the Gangster Genre / Robert Haas -- 5. The Movie You See, The Movie You Don't: How Disney Do's That Old Time Derision / Susan Miller and Greg Rode -- 6. Somatexts at the Disney Shop: Constructing the Pentimentos of Women's Animated Bodies / Elizabeth Bell -- 7. "The Whole Wide World Was Scrubbed Clean": The Androcentric Animation of Denatured Disney / Patrick D. Murphy -- 8. Bambi / David Payne -- 9. Beyond Captain Nemo: Disney's Science Fiction / Brian Attebery -- 10. The Curse of Masculinity: Disney's Beauty and the Beast / Susan Jeffords -- 11. "Where Do the Mermaids Stand?": Voice and Body in The Little Mermaid / Laura Sells |
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12. "Eighty-Six the Mother": Murder, Matricide, and Good Mothers / Lynda Haas -- 13. Spinsters in Sensible Shoes: Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks / Chris Cuomo -- 14. Pretty Woman through the Triple Lens of Black Feminist Spectatorship / D. Soyini Madison -- 15. Pachuco Mickey / Ramona Fernandez |
| Summary |
From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Addressing children's classics as well as the Disney affiliates' more recent attempts to capture adult audiences, the contributors respond to the Disney film legacy from feminist, marxist, poststructuralist, and cultural studies perspectives. The volume contemplates Disney's duality as an American icon and as an industry of cultural production, created in and through fifty years of filmmaking. The contributors treat a range of topics at issue in contemporary cultural studies: the performance of gender, race, and class; the engendered images of science, nature, technology, family, and business. The compilation of voices in From Mouse to Mermaid creates a persuasive cultural critique of Disney's ideology |
| Analysis |
Childreǹs films -- Political aspects |
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Walt Disney Company |
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Disney, Walt, 1901-1966 -- Criticism and interpretation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web by subscription to netLibrary, Inc. (CEIRC Shared Collection) |
| Subject |
Disney, Walt, 1901-1966 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Walt Disney Company.
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Children's films -- Political aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Author |
Haas, Lynda.
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Bell, Elizabeth, 1953-
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Sells, Laura.
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| LC no. |
94049374 |
| ISBN |
0253329051 cloth alkaline paper |
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0253209781 pa alkaline paper |
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