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Discussing Disney / / edited by Amy M. Davis |
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New Barnet, Herts, England : , : JL, , [2019] |
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©2019 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 pages) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Cover -- Discussing Disney -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributor Biographies -- Introduction -- I. History -- 1 A Return to 2719 Hyperion Avenue: Walt Disney as Archetypal Trickster -- 2 Animating America's Anticommunism: Alice's Egg Plant (1925) and Disney's First Red Scare -- 3 High Fantasy Disney: Recontextualising The Black Cauldron -- II. Inside the Studio -- 4 "That Corner of the Disney Studios that is Forever England": Disney's Vision of the British Family -- 5 Fix it Felix! Reviving Disney Animation using the Pixar Formula -- 6 Let it go? Towards a "Plasmatic" Perspective on Digital Disney -- III. Gender -- 7 The Meaning within Characters' Use of Cosmetics in Disney's Animated Feature Films -- 8 From Operatic Uniformity to Upbeat Eclecticism: The Musical Evolution of the Princess in Disney's Animated Features -- 9 Princess Brides and Dream Weddings: Investigating the Gendered Narrative of Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings -- 10 Frozen Hearts and Fixer-Uppers: Villainy, Gender, and Female Companionship in Disney's Frozen -- IV. Outside the Studio -- 11 The Violentest Place on Earth: Adventures in Censorship, Nostalgia, and Pastiche (or, The Simpsons Do Disney) -- 12 Disney Pluralism: Beyond Disney-Formalism -- Index. |
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By looking at Disney from some of its many angles - the history and the persona of its founder, a selection of its films (from the blockbuster successes to the less than successful), its approaches to animation, its branding and fandom, and the ways that it has been understood and |
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reinterpreted within popular culture - it is hoped that Discussing Disney offers its readers (and the field of Disney Studies) a more holistic understanding of a company that is arguably one of the most important forces within culture - popular or otherwise - within (so far) the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. |
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