Research Catalog

Title

Diversity in Disney films : critical essays on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability / edited by Johnson Cheu.

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

Cheu, Johnson, 1969-

Description

viii, 307 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"This essay collection gathers recent scholarship on representations of diversity in Disney and Disney/Pixar films, exploring not only race and gender, but also newer areas of study. Covering a wide array of films this compendium highlights the social impact of the entertainment giant and reveals its cultural significance in shaping our global citizenry"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

• Animated films > United States > History and criticism
• People with disabilities in motion pictures
• Walt Disney Productions
• Race in motion pictures
• Disabilities in motion pictures
• Ethnicity in motion pictures
• Pixar (Firm)
• Motion pictures > United States > History and criticism
• Sex role in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-283), filmography (pages 285-292), and index.

Contents

• Beyond the fairest : essays on race and ethnicity -- Traditions and transformations : essays on gender and sexuality -- Of beasts and innocents : essays on disability -- Up and out : essays on reimaginings and new visions.
• Re-casting and diversifying Disney in the age of globalization / Johnson Cheu -- Cannibals and coons : blackness in the early days of Walt Disney / Kheli R. Willetts -- Saludos amigos and The three caballeros : the representation of Latin America in Disney's "good neighbor" films / Karen S. Goldman -- Mapping the imaginary : the Neverland of Disney Indians / Prajna Parasher -- A "vexing implication" : Siamese cats and orientalist mischief-making / Kimiko Akita and Rick Kenney -- White man's best friend : race and privilege in Oliver and company / Natchee Blue Barnd -- Blackness, bayous, and gumbo : encoding and decoding race in a colorblind world / Sarah E. Turner -- Fighting the Cold War with Pinocchio, Bambi and Dumbo / Danielle Glassmeyer -- "You the man, well, sorta" : gender binaries and liminality in Mulan / Gwendolyn LImbach -- "What do you want me to do? Dress in drag and do the hula?" : Timon and Pumbaa's alternative lifestyle dilemma in The Lion King / Gael Sweeney -- Mean ladies : transgendered villains in Disney films / Amanda Putnam -- "You're a surprise from every angle" : disability, identity and otherness in The hunchback of Notre Dame / Martin F. Norden -- Dopey's legacy : stereotypical portrayals of intellectual disability in the classic animated films / Karen Schwartz, Zana Marie Lutfiya and Nancy Hansen -- A place at the table : on being human in the Beauty and the beast tradition / Tammy Berberi and Viktor Berberi -- Is Disney avant-garde? A comparative analysis of Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Jan Svankmajer's Alice (1989) / William Verrone -- (Indivi)duality in Return to Oz : reflection and revision / Ana Salzberg -- Securing the virtual frontier for whiteness in Tron / Michael Green -- A womb with a phew! Post-humanist theory and Pixar's Wall-E / Walter C. Metz -- Home is where the heart is : Pixar's Up / Dennis Tyler.

Call Number

MFL 13-4530

ISBN

• 9780786446018 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786446013 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2012044136
• 40021956250

OCLC

796760288

Title

Diversity in Disney films : critical essays on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability / edited by Johnson Cheu.

Publisher

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-283), filmography (pages 285-292), and index.

Added Author

Cheu, Johnson, 1969-

Other Standard Identifier

40021956250

Research Call Number

MFL 13-4530