Screen LibraryIt's the Disney version! : popular cinema and literary classics /
"In 1937, the first full-length animated film produced by Walt Disney was released. Based on a fairy tale written by the Brothers Grimm, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was an instant success and set the stage for more film adaptations over the next several decades. From animated features like...
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Rowman & Littlefield,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"In 1937, the first full-length animated film produced by Walt Disney was released. Based on a fairy tale written by the Brothers Grimm, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was an instant success and set the stage for more film adaptations over the next several decades. From animated features like Bambi to live action films such as Mary Poppins, Disney repeatedly turned to literary sources for inspiration--a tradition the Disney studios continues well into the twenty-first century. In It's the Disney Version!: Popular Cinema and Literary Classics, Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode have collected e |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 235 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781442266063 (hardback) : 1442266066 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | PN1999 |
| CLC: | J909.712 |
| Call Number: | J909.712/I881 |
| Contents: | Introduction: once upon a time at the movies / Douglas Brode -- "And they lived happily ever after?": Disney's animated adaptation of Snow White and the seven dwarfs (1937) and Fleischers' Gulliver's travels / David McGowan -- Marionette as metaphor: Pinocchio and evolving attitudes toward education / Jean-Marie Apostolides -- Here be gay dragons: queer allegory and Disney's The reluctant dragon / Tison Pugh -- Uncle Walt's Uncle Remus: Disney's distortion of Harris's hero / Peggy A. Russo -- "Glory in the flower": Disneyfying Bambi / David Payne -- Through the cinematic looking glass: Walt |