From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Movie, Gender, and Tradition

From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary assortment of authentic essays, is the primary complete, crucial remedy of Disney cinema. Addressing youngsters’s classics in addition to the Disney associates’ more moderen makes an attempt to seize grownup audiences, the contributors reply to the Disney movie legacy from feminist, marxist, poststructuralist, and cultural research views. The quantity contemplates Disney’s duality as an American icon and as an trade of cultural manufacturing, created in and thru fifty years of filmmaking. The contributors deal with a variety of subjects at difficulty in up to date cultural research: the efficiency of gender, race, and sophistication; the engendered photos of science, nature, know-how, household, and enterprise. 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.