From Mouse to Mermaid
The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture
Published on 1. October 1995
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-253-32905-9 (ISBN)
Description
"From Mouse to Mermaid", an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Addressing children's classics as well as the Disney affiliates' more recent attempts to capture adult audiences, the contributors respond to the Disney film legacy from feminist, marxist, poststructuralist, and cultural studies perspectives. The volume contemplates Disney's duality as an American icon and as an industry of cultural production, created in and through fifty years of filmmaking. The contributors treat a range of topics at issue in contemporary cultural studies: the performance of gender, race, and class; the engendered images of science, nature, technology, family, and business. The compilation of voices in "From Mouse to Mermaid" creates a persuasive cultural critique of Disney's ideology. The contributors are Bryan Attebery, Elizabeth Bell, Claudia Card, Chris Cuomo, Ramona Fernandez, Henry A. Giroux, Robert Haas, Lynda Haas, Susan Jeffords, N. Soyini Madison, Susan Miller, Patrick Murphy, David Payne, Greg Rode, Laura Sells, and Jack Zipes.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-32905-9 (9780253329059)
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Elizabeth Bell | Lynda Haas | Laura Sells
From Mouse to Mermaid
The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture
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11/1995
Indiana University Press
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Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: WaltOs in the MoviesNElizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, and Laura Sells Section I: Sanitizations/Disney Film as Cultural Pedagogy Breaking the Disney SpellNJack Zipes Memory and Pedagogy in the OWonderful World of DisneyO: Beyond the Politics of InnocenceNHenry A. Giroux PinocchioNClaudia Card Disney Does Dutch: Billy Bathgate and the Disneyficationof the Gangster GenreNRobert Haas The Movie You See, The Movie DonOt: How Disney DoOs That Old Time DerisionNSusan Miller and Greg Rode Section II: Contestations/Disney Film as Gender Construction Somatexts at the Disney Shop: Constructing the Pentimentos of WomenOs Animated BodiesNElizabeth Bell OThe Whole Wide World was Scribbed CleanO: The Androcentric Animation of Denatured DisneyNPatrick D. Murphy BambiNDavid Payne Beyond Captain Nemo: DisneyOs Science FictionNBrian Attebery The Curse of Masculinity: DisneyOs Beauty and the BeastNSusan Jeffords Section III: Erasures/Disney Film as Identity Politics OWhere Do The Mermaids Stand?OVoice and Body in The Little MermaidNLaura Sells OEighty-Six the MotherO: Murder, Matricide, and Good MothersNLynda Haas Spinsters in Sensible Shoes: Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and BroomsticksNChris Cuomo Pretty Woman Through the Triple Lens of Black Feminist SpectatorshipND.Soyini Madison Pachuco MickeyNRamona Fernancez Contributors Index