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Title The Disney Middle Ages : a fairy-tale and fantasy past / edited by Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein
Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrations
Series The New Middle Ages
New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Contents Introduction: Disney's retroprogressive medievalisms : where yesterday is tomorrow today / Tison Pugh -- Part I: Building a better middle ages : medievalism in the parks. Mapping the happiest place on Earth : Disney's medieval cartography / Stephen Yandell ; Disney's castles and the work of the medieval in the Magic Kingdom / Martha Bayless ; Pilgrimage and medieval narrative structures in Disney's parks / Susan Aronstein -- Part II: The distorical middle ages. "You don't learn it deliberately, but you just know it from what you've seen" : British understandings of the medieval past gleaned from Disney's fairy tales / Paul Sturtevant ; The sorcerer's apprentice : animation and alchemy in Disney's medievalism / Erin Felicia Labbie ; The sword in the stone : American translatio and Disney's antimedievalism / Rob Gossedge ; Walt in Sherwood, or the sheriff of Disneyland : Disney and the film legend of Robin Hood / Kevin J. Harty ; Futuristic medievalisms and the U.S. space program in Disney's Man in space trilogy and Unidentified flying oddball / Amy Foster -- Part III: Disney princess fantasy faire. "Where happily ever after happens every day" : the medievalisms of Disney's princesses / Clare Bradford ; Disney's medievalized ecologies in Snow White and the seven dwarfs and Sleeping Beauty / Kathleen Coyne Kelly ; The united princesses of America : ethnic diversity and cultural purity in Disney's medieval past / Ilan Mitchell-Smith ; Esmeralda of Notre-Dame : the gypsy in medieval view from Hugo to Disney / Allison Craven ; Reality remixed : neomedieval princess culture in Disney's Enchanted / Maria Sachiko Cecire
Summary "The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past examines the intersection between the products of the Walt Disney Company and popular culture's fascination with the Middle Ages. The Disney Middle Ages have come, for many, to figure as the Middle Ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past for much of the contemporary western (and increasingly eastern) imaginary. The Disney Middle Ages explores Disney's accounts of the Middle Ages and their political and cultural ramifications, analyzing how these re-creations of a fairy-tale history function in modern society"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-273), filmography, and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 27, 2021)
Subject Walt Disney Productions.
SUBJECT Walt Disney Productions fast
Walt Disney Company Burbank, Calif. gnd
Subject Medievalism -- Social aspects
Middle Ages in motion pictures.
Fairy tales -- Social aspects
Medievalism -- Political aspects
Commercial products -- Social aspects
Medievalism in art.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
Commercial products -- Social aspects
Fairy tales -- Social aspects
Medievalism in art
Middle Ages in motion pictures
Mittelalter
Rezeption
Medeltiden i filmen.
Sagor i filmen.
Animerad film.
Form Electronic book
Author Pugh, Tison, editor.
Aronstein, Susan Lynn, editor.
LC no. 2012022503
ISBN 9781137066923
113706692X