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As The Walt Disney Company celebrates 100 years of fairy-tale magic, this collection of essays encapsulates this long and successful journey. From its beginnings as Laugh-O-Gram in the early 1920s, the two-man operation has become a multi-billion-dollar corporation that is a world leader in media communications. Their magical stories have continued across generations, supported by film, theme parks, and merchandise, all of which have made Disney a household name. This collection seeks to celebrate these stories, both historically and within present-day times, examining the relevance and importance of the world of Disney in popular culture.
Amanda Rutherford is a Lecturer in the School of Language and Culture at Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Sarah Baker is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication Studies at Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa, New Zealand.
List of contents
1. Introduction – A Century of Disney - Amanda Rutherford and Sarah Baker.- Time, Design, and Method.- 2. Tales of time: 100 years of Walt Disney’s magic - Amanda Rutherford.- 3. The Enduring Influence of Walt Disney on User Experience (UX) Design - Ricky Tucker, UX/UI designer for Louisiana's Office of Technology Services.- 4. Mary Blair & the Making of Cinderella (1950) - Gabrielle Stecher, PhD, Associate Director of Undergraduate Teaching and Lecturer in the Department of English at Indiana University Bloomington.- 5. Marvel's medieval Thor - Kevin Fylan, MLitt in Viking Studies, PhD candidate at University College Cork in Ireland.- 6. Animating Emotions: Exploring Emotional Memory in Disney and Pixar Films Focusing on its representation forms, meanings, and effects - Kyoung-suk Sung, PhD, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, German.- De-and-Reconstructing gender.- 7. Waiting for New Princes Charming. Male Identity from Fairy Tale to the Disney Universe - Dalia Forni, PhD, Uniersity of Florence, Italy.- 8. Body modification to win a prince: The Cinderella tale of enhancement in modern society - Amanda Rutherford.- 9. Sounding Silence: Fathoming the Feminist Dialogics of Walt Disney’s The Little Mermaid -Maryna Matlock, PhD. Dept of English Alumna, Ohio State University.- 10. A Whole New World: Reinventing the Fairy Tale Prince in Disney - Ritika Chhabra, MA student, Shiv Nadar University, India.- Expanding representations of family.- 11. From Heteronormative to Queer Kinship: Disney’s Patterns of Parenthood over the Century - Thanong Aupitak, PhD candidate American Studies at the University of Hamburg, Germany.- 12. “The Stars Don’t Shine, They Burn”: Perfectionism in Disney’s Encanto (2021) - Jelena Pataki Šumiga, PhD candidate in Literature and Cultural Identity Studies. University of Osijek, Croatia.- 13. “The Perfect Child, The Strong One, and The Cycle Breaker: Personifying Intergenerational Trauma Responses in Disney’s Encanto - Julie Thompson, Assistant professor of English at Burman University in Alberta, Canada.-14. In and out and In again: Disney’s now you see it now you don’t queer representation - Sarah Baker.- Monsters at the door.- 15. Creepiest Place on Earth: The Dark Side of Disney - Sarah Baker.- 16. Delight in the Gruesome and Grim: The Appeal of Villains Who Know They’re Bad - Nicholas Galante, MA, Trinity College Dublin.- 17. “He’s more machine now than man; twisted and evil”: Gothic Villains and Technology in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy - Antonio Sanna, PhD,University of Sassari, Italy.- 18. The Aggressive Side of the Natural World: Character Transformation through Nonhuman Violence in Recent Disney Films - Rachel Carazo, M.A. English, B.A. Asian Studies. MSc Ancient Worlds candidate University of Edinburgh.
About the author
Amanda Rutherford is a Lecturer in the School of Language and Culture at Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Sarah Baker is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication Studies at Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Summary
As The Walt Disney Company celebrates 100 years of fairy-tale magic, this collection of essays encapsulates this long and successful journey. From its beginnings as Laugh-O-Gram in the early 1920s, the two-man operation has become a multi-billion-dollar corporation that is a world leader in media communications. Their magical stories have continued across generations, supported by film, theme parks, and merchandise, all of which have made Disney a household name. This collection seeks to celebrate these stories, both historically and within present-day times, examining the relevance and importance of the world of Disney in popular culture.
