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Abstract
Demonising Disney is nothing new. Disney films have long been synonymous with a certain conservative, patriarchal, heterosexual ideology, occupying a centre-stage position at the heart of the evil empire. Deconstructing Disney takes issue with knee-jerk polarities, overturning classical oppositions and recognising that, just as the Disney 'text' has changed, so too must the terms of critical engagement.
This book is a sharply focused deconstruction of the political culture - and the cultural politics - of the Disney canon in the years since the emergence of the so-called New World Order. Eleanor Byrne and Martin McQuillan offer a critical encounter with Disney which alternates between readings of individual texts and wider thematic concerns such as race, gender and sexuality, the broader context of American contemporary culture, and the global ambitions and insularity of the last great superpower. The movies discussed include The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Pocohontas, Snow White, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Dumbo, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Hercules and Mulan.
'What could could be more innocent that Disney animated films? Eleanor Byrne and Martin McQuillan set out to prove how wrong that assumption is in their ideological critique. They join the growing number of critics who argue that Disney's hegemony in the contemporary world ... insightful and uncanny'
Scope: Online Journnal of Film Studies
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Contents | iii | ||
Acknowledgements | vii | ||
Introduction Duckology: Political Narrative in the Age of Deconstruction | 1 | ||
Reading for Socialism | 1 | ||
Keeping Up With the Paula Joneses | 7 | ||
How to Read Donald Trump | 14 | ||
1 A Spectre is Haunting Europe: Disney Rides Again | 19 | ||
Speculating on Disney | 19 | ||
When Shrimps Learn to Whistle | 22 | ||
Intermission | 37 | ||
2 Socialisme ou barbarie: Welcoming Disney | 42 | ||
The Legs of Freud | 42 | ||
Cosmopolitics | 45 | ||
3 Domesticated Animus: Engendering Disney | 57 | ||
Raised the Disney Way | 57 | ||
The logic of the B& B | 69 | ||
4 Spectographies: Conjuring Disney | 73 | ||
Call me Al | 73 | ||
An African Hamlet | 82 | ||
5 'You Can't Lionise the Lion': Racing Disney | 94 | ||
Ev'rybody Wants To Be a Cat | 96 | ||
Red Men Tell No Tales | 105 | ||
Going Into the Red | 108 | ||
6 It's the Economy, Stupid: Bill 'n' Disney | 111 | ||
It Takes a Village | 111 | ||
Cosmospolitics | 124 | ||
7 King of the Swingers: Queering Disney | 133 | ||
Forever Friends | 133 | ||
Gay Paris | 139 | ||
Mickey Mouse Democracy | 145 | ||
8 Democracy Limited: Impeaching Disney | 151 | ||
Hercules Unzipped | 151 | ||
Mulan Rouge | 159 | ||
Epilogue: Disney Work | 168 | ||
Filmography | 177 | ||
Disney Films ( in chronological order) | 177 | ||
Other Films ( in alphabetical order) | 179 | ||
Select Bibliography | 181 | ||
Notes | 188 | ||
Introduction | 188 | ||
Chapter 1 | 189 | ||
Intermission | 190 | ||
Chapter 2 | 190 | ||
Chapter 3 | 191 | ||
Chapter 4 | 193 | ||
Chapter 5 | 196 | ||
Chapter 6 | 198 | ||
Chapter 7 | 201 | ||
Chapter 8 | 202 | ||
Epilogue | 204 | ||
Index | 206 | ||
Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective, | 41 |