From Mouse to Mermaid The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture [Paperback]

From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Addressing childrens classics as well as the Disney affiliates more recent attempts to capture adult audiences, the contributors respond to the Disney film legacy from feminist, marxist, poststructuralist, and cultural studies perspectives. The volume contemplates Disneys duality as an American icon and as an industry of cultural production, created in and through fifty years of filmmaking. The contributors treat a range of topics at issue in contemporary cultural studies: the performance of gender, race, and class; the engendered images of science, nature, technology, family, and business. The compilation of voices in From Mouse to Mermaid creates a persuasive cultural critique of Disneys 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.

ELIZABETH BELL is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the Unviersity of South Florida.

LYNDA HAAS is Assistant Professor in the Writing Program at Ithaca College.

LAURA SELLS is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Walts in the MoviesElizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, and Laura Sells

Section I: Sanitizations/Disney Film as Cultural Pedagogy
Breaking the Disney SpellJack Zipes
Memory and Pedagogy in the Wonderful World of Disney : Beyond the Politics of InnocenceHenry A. Giroux
PinocchioClaudia Card
Disney Does Dutch: Billy Bathgate and the Disneyficationof the Gangster GenreRobert Haas
The Movie You See, The Movie Dont: How Disney Dos That Old Time DerisionSusan Miller and Greg Rode

Section II: Contestations/lÓ/