Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Walt's in the Movies—Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, and Laura Sells

Section I: Sanitizations/Disney Film as Cultural Pedagogy
Breaking the Disney Spell—Jack Zipes
Memory and Pedagogy in the "Wonderful World of Disney": Beyond the Politics of Innocence—Henry A. Giroux
Pinocchio—Claudia Card
Disney Does Dutch: Billy Bathgate and the Disneyficationof the Gangster Genre—Robert Haas
The Movie You See, The Movie Don't: How Disney Do's That Old Time Derision—Susan Miller and Greg Rode

Section II: Contestations/Disney Film as Gender Construction
Somatexts at the Disney Shop: Constructing the Pentimentos of Women's Animated Bodies—Elizabeth Bell
"The Whole Wide World was Scribbed Clean": The Androcentric Animation of Denatured Disney—Patrick D. Murphy
Bambi—David Payne
Beyond Captain Nemo: Disney's Science Fiction—Brian Attebery
The Curse of Masculinity: Disney's Beauty and the Beast—Susan Jeffords

Section III: Erasures/Disney Film as Identity Politics
"Where Do The Mermaids Stand?"Voice and Body in The Little Mermaid—Laura Sells
"Eighty-Six the Mother": Murder, Matricide, and Good Mothers—Lynda Haas
Spinsters in Sensible Shoes: Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks—Chris Cuomo
Pretty Woman Through the Triple Lens of Black Feminist Spectatorship—D.Soyini Madison
Pachuco Mickey—Ramona Fernancez

Contributors
Index

Promotional Information

The first critical study of Disney films.

About the Author

ELIZABETH BELL is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the Unviersity of South Florida.

LYNDA HAAS is Assistant Professor in the Writing Program at Ithaca College.

LAURA SELLS is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida.

Reviews

"... a wealth of local insights into many specific Disney projects, from their animated classics up to and including their work produced and distributed under their various other corporate names ..." - American Quarterly "The Disney book with a difference! ...These tightly structured and passionately but thoughtfully argued points should provoke lively debate..." - Brave New World