Synopses & Reviews
Disney's attempt to validate multicultural diversity may appear to be a worthy, even admirable, endeavor. However, the contributors of this book argue that the Disney company's version of multiculturalism is really the same « old groove - a surreptitious colonizing force that manipulates the psychological, cultural, and political identities of consumers, predominantly children. Demystifying the mechanisms and ideals through which Disney manages public values and expands its empire of illusory American culture, The Emperor's Old Groove interrogates animation role models that perpetuate insidious racial, cultural, and gender stereotypes.
Table of Contents
The wonderful world of Disney : the world that made the man and the man that made the world / Brenda Ayres -- Beauties and their beasts & other motherless tales from the wonderful world of Walt Disney / Mark Axelrod -- The poisonous apple in Snow White : Disney's kingdom of gender / Brenda Ayres -- Stripping beauty : Disney's "feminist" seduction / Kellie Bean -- Disney's magic carpet ride : Aladdin and women in Islam / Christiane Staninger -- Disney, the beast, and woman as civilizing force / Kathleen E.B. Manley -- "All that is solid melts into the air" : "the winds of change" and other analogues of colonialism in Disney's Mary Poppins / Brian E. Szumsky -- Notes from the Aladdin industry : or, Middle eastern folklore in the era of multinational capitalism / Christopher Wise -- Shakespeare and company : the Lion King and the Disneyfication of Hamlet / Stephen M. Buhler -- Disney's Tempest : colonizing desire in the Little mermaid / Richard Finkelstein -- Mulan Disney, it's like, re-orients : consuming China and animating teen dreams / Sheng-mei Ma -- Pocahontas : the Disney imaginary / Pushpa Naidu Parekh -- The politics of vision : Disney, Aladdin, and the Gulf war / Dianne Sachko Macleod.