Neo-Disneyism; Inclusivity in the Twenty-First Century of Disney's Magic Kingdom

ISBN-13: 9781800797994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 350 str.

Brenda Ayres; Sarah Maier

Opis

This follow-up to the 2003 volume The Emperor's Old Groove: Decolonizing Disney's Magic Kingdom argues that recent Disney films strive to be more inclusive, tolerant, and affirmative of multiple cultures, ethnicities, nationalities, genders, and the differently abled.

Spis treści

Contents: Neo-Victorianism and Neo-Disneyism - Transmedial Paratexts and Ideology in Disney's Brave, Pocahontas, and Mulan - Imagineered Neo- Victorian American Real Estate: "A clean, unspoiled spot" - Reiteration of Fairy Tales in the Twenty- First Century for a Global Market - Eastern Witch from the West: Xianniang in Niki Caro's Mulan - The Hybrid Alice: Framing the Imperial Gothic in Tim Burton's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Peter Pan After the Blitz: Finding What Remains in Return to Never Land - Neo- Disney's Reconstruction of Masculinities - Disney's New Dance at the Ball: Beauty and the Beast and Bowing to Difference - "You must go on": The Neo- Disney Female and Her Mental Health - New Gendered Representations in Contemporary Disney- Pixar Villains - Maleficent's Rage - Beyond Perfection: Inclusion and Self- Exploration of Neo- Disney "Beauties," "Beasts," and "Monsters".

O autorze

Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier have coedited and contributed chapters to the following volumes most recently: The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism (2022), The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture (2022), The Theological Dickens (2022) and Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures (2022).