Demonising Disney is nothing new. Disney films have long been synonymous with a certain conservative, patriarchal, heterosexual ideology, occupying a centre-stage position at the heart of the evil empire. Deconstructing Disney takes issue with knee-jerk polarities, overturning classical oppositions and recognising that, just as the Disney ‘text’ has changed, so too must the terms of critical engagement.
This book is a sharply focused deconstruction of the political culture – and the cultural politics – of the Disney canon in the years since the emergence of the so-called New World Order. Eleanor Byrne and Martin Mc Quillan offer a critical encounter with Disney which alternates between readings of individual texts and wider thematic concerns such as race, gender and sexuality, the broader context of American contemporary culture, and the global ambitions and insularity of the last great superpower. The movies discussed include The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Pocohontas, Snow White, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Dumbo, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Hercules and Mulan.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction. Duckology: Political narrative in the age of deconstruction
1. A Specter is Haunting Europe: Disney Rides Again Inter-mission
2. Socialisme ou barbarie: Welcoming Disney
3. Domesticated Animus: Engendering Disney
4. Spectrographies: Conjuring Disney
5. You Can’t Lionise the Lion: Racing Disney
6. Its the Economy Stupid: Bill ‘n’ Disney
7. King of the Swingers: Queering Disney
8. Democracy Limited: Impeaching Disney
Epilogue: Disney Work
Filmography
Index
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Martin Mc Quillan is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, London, where he is also Co-Director of The London Graduate School He is the author, along with Eleanor Byrne, of Deconstructing Disney (Pluto, 1999), Paul de Man (Routledge, 2000) and editor of The Narrative Reader (Routledge, 2000), Theorising Muriel Spark (AIAA, 2002) and The Politics of Deconstruction (Pluto, 2007).
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