Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films

Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films initiates an essential conversation about how power dynamics are questioned, reinforced, and disrupted in the Disneyverse. Using various theoretical lenses, authors critique underlying ideologies and help readers understand how Disney’s output both reflects and impacts our contemporary moment.

List of contents

Introduction by Kellie Deys and Denise F. Parrillo
Section 1: Maintaining Social Orders
1. "We Don't Like What We Don't Understand": Mob Mentality and Individualism in Beauty and the Beast and The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Kellie Deys
2. Animated Fantasy and Isolation: The Asian Identity Vacuum in Disney's Constructed Universe by Christopher Maiytt
3. The Magic Island of Seabrook High: Disney Retcons the Civil Rights Movement in High School Musical Descendant Zombies by Aaron Clayton
Section 2: Regulated Worlds of (Resisting) Children
4. Do You Want to Build a Childhood Trauma?: Parental Agency and Authority in Disney's Frozen by Denise A. Ayo
5. "Because My World Would Be a Wonderland": Fantasy Circumscription & Adult Constructions of Girlhood in Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953) by Joseph V. Giunta
6. It Isn't Just His Nose that Grows: Disney's Pinocchio and the Erotic Afterlives of Errant Boys by Vincent A. Lankewish
Section 3: Challenging Social Constructs
7. Who Can Be Super?: E

About the author

Kellie Deys is professor of English at Nichols College. Denise F. Parrillo is associate professor of English at the Community College of Rhode Island.Kellie Deys is professor of English at Nichols College. Denise F. Parrillo is associate professor of English at the Community College of Rhode Island.

Product details

• Authors: Kellie Deys, Denise F. Parrillo
• Assisted by: Kellie Deys (Editor), Denise F. Parrillo (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2021
• EAN: 9781793622105
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-210-5
• No. of pages: 234
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Studies in Disney and Culture
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Animated, Animated Films, animation;children's movies;Disney;film;movies;Pixar, animation; children's movies; Disney; film; movies; Pixar