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Disney Gothic
Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse
- 267 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
About this book
Despite Disney's carefully crafted image of family friendliness, Gothic elements are pervasive in all of Disney's productions, ranging from its theme parks to its films and television programs. The contributors to Disney Gothic reveal that the Gothic, in fact, serves as the unacknowledged motor of the Disney machine. Exploring representations of villains, ghosts, and monsters, this book sheds important new light on the role these Gothic elements play throughout the Disney universe in constructing and reinforcing conceptions of normalcy and deviance in relation to shifting understandings of morality, social roles, and identity categories. In doing so, this book raises fascinating questions about the appeal, marketing, and consumption of Gothic horror by adults and particularly by children, who historically have been Disney's primary audience.
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Yes, you can access Disney Gothic by Lorna Piatti-Farnell,Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Animation. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Dark Beginnings and Gothic Technologies
- Silly Spookiness
- From Gothic to Gags
- Hidden Histories
- Monsters on the Mouse-Tube
- Sinister Surveillance
- The Game Is Playing Itself
- Monsters and Magic
- Disney’s Tetratologies
- “Who Is the Monster and Who Is the Man?”
- Voodoo, Hoodoo, and Friends on the Other Side
- The Human/Animal Divide
- Primitive Life and Animated Death
- Something Wicked
- Maleficent
- Mother Knows Best
- The Vampire Queen of the Disney Scene
- Gorgeous, Vicious and a “Little Bit Mad”
- Index
- About the Contributors