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1 online resource (255 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: once upon a time at the movies / Douglas Brode -- "And they lived happily ever after?": Disney's animated adaptation of Snow White and the seven dwarfs (1937) and Fleischers' Gulliver's travels / David McGowan -- Marionette as metaphor: Pinocchio and evolving attitudes toward education / Jean-Marie Apostolides -- Here be gay dragons: queer allegory and Disney's The reluctant dragon / Tison Pugh -- Uncle Walt's Uncle Remus: Disney's distortion of Harris's hero / Peggy A. Russo -- "Glory in the flower": Disneyfying Bambi / David Payne -- Through the cinematic looking glass: Walt Disney's 1951 animated Alice and Tim Burton's 2010 film / Sarah Boslaugh -- Walt Disney and Robert Louis Stevenson: Haskin's Treasure island or Stevenson's Kidnapped? / Scott Allen Nollen -- Of medieval ballads and movie musicals: Walt Disney and the Robin Hood legend / Shea T. Brode with Douglas Brode -- "Do you believe in fairies?": Peter Pan, Walt Disney, and me / Elizabeth Bell -- "In God's good time": Walt Disney and 1950s Cold War culture / Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Perchance to dream: a narrative analysis of Disney's Sleeping beauty / Alexis Finnerty with Douglas Brode -- "It's a jungle out there, kid!": Walt Disney and the American 1960s / Greg Metcalf -- "Higitus! figitus!": of Merlin and Disney magic / Susan Aronson -- "This is not the Mary Poppins I know!": P.L. Travers goes to Hollywood / David S. and Olga Silverman -- The wonderful worlds of Dickens and Disney: animated adaptations of Oliver Twist and A Christmas carol / Shari Hodges Holt -- The tao at Pooh corner: Disney's portrayal of a very philosophical bear / Anne Collins Smith and Owen M. Smith -- From icon to Disneyfication: a mermaid's aesthetic journey / Finn Hauberg Mortensen -- Pocahontas as Disney princess: history, legend, literature, and movie mythology / Kathy Merlock Jackson and Gary Edgerton -- "Driven to sin": Victor Hugo's complex vision of humanity in Disney's The hunchback of Notre Dame / Michael Smith -- The integrity of an ape-man: Burroughs, Disney, and the meaning of the Tarzan myth / Stanley A. Galloway. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Walt Disney Company -- History.
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Film adaptations -- History and criticism.
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Motion pictures and literature.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Brode, Douglas, 1943- editor.
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Brode, Shea T., 1984- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: It's the Disney version : popular cinema and literary classics. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 9781442266063 |
| ISBN |
9781442266063 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9781442266070 (e-book) |
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