Critical Disney, Spring 2012 (Reading List)

Michael Mario Albrecht

Critical Disney: Kids, Corporations, and Media Culture

Spring, 2012, University of New Hampshire

Reading List

Baudrillard, Jean. “The Procession of the Simulacra.” Simulacra and Simulation. Trans. Sheila Faria Glaser. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Brockus, Susan. “Where Magic Lives™: Disney’s Cultivation, Co-Creation, and Control of America’s Cultural Objects.” Popular Communication 2.4 (2004): 191-211.

Budd, Mike and Max H. Kirsch.  Rethinking Disney:  Private Control, Public Dimensions.  Middletown, CT:  Wesleyan University Press, 2005.

Darmanin, Godwin. “From Second Life and Ski Dubai to the Embracing of Hyperreality and Pseudo Events – Reflections on Baudrillard, Eco, Boorstin, and Borgmann.” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 8.2 (2001).  <http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol8_2/v8-2-darmanian.html>.

Do Rozario, Rebecca-Anne C.  “The Princess and the Magic Kingdom:  Beyond Nostalgia, The Function of the Disney Princess.”  Women’s Studies in Communication 27.1 (2004):  34-59.

Drotner, Kirsten.  “Disney Discourses, or Mundane Globalization.”  European Culture and the Media. Eds. Ib Bondebjerg and Peter Golding.  Portland, OR: Intellect Books, 2004.

Eco, Umberto. “Travels in Hyperreality.” Travels in Hyperreality Essays Trans. William Weaver. New York: 1986.

Fung, Anthony and Mickey Lee.  “Localizing a Global Amusement Park: Hong Kong Disneyland.”  Continuum:  Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 23.2 (2009): 197-208.

Gregory, Sarita McCoy.  “Disney’s Second Line:  New Orleans, Racial Masquerade, and the Reproduction of Whiteness in The Princess and the Frog.”  Journal of African American Studies 14 (2010):  432-49.

Gillam, Ken and Sharron Wooden.  “Post-Princess Models of Gender:  The New Man in Disney/Pixar.”  Journal of Popular Film and Television 36.1 (2008):  2-8.

Giroux, Henry A. and Grace Pollock.  The Mouse that Roared:  Disney and the End of the Innocence, Updated and Expanded Edition.  New York:  Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. 

Hoerrner, “Gender Roles in Disney Films:  Analyzing Behaviors from Snow White to Simba.”  Women’s Studies in Communication 19.2 (1996):  213-229.

Houston, H. Rika and Laurie A. Meamber. “Consuming the ‘World’: Reflexivity, Aesthetics, and Authenticity at Disney World’s EPCOT Center.” Consumption Markets and Culture 14.2 (2011): 177-191.

Jeffords, Susan.  “The Curse of Masculinity:  Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.” From Mouse to Mermaid:  The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Eds. Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1995.  

Lacroix, Celeste.  “Images of Animated Others:  The Orientalization of Disney’s Cartoon Heroines From The Little Mermaid to The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”  Popular Communication 2.4 (2004): 213-29.

Lam, Sunny S.K. “‘Global Corporate Cultural Capital’ as a Drag on Glocalization:  Disneyland’s Promotion of the Halloween Festival.” Media, Culture, & Society 32.4 (2010): 631-48.

Levine, Elana.  “Fractured Fairy Tales and Fragmented Markets:  Disney’s Weddings of a Lifetime and the Cultural Politics of Media Conglomeration.”  Television & New Media 6.1 (2005):  71-88.

McLeod, Kembrew. “Confessions of an Intellectual (Property): Danger Mouse, Mickey Mouse, Sonny Bono, and My Long and Winding Path as a Copyright Activist-Academic.” Popular Music and Society 28.1 (2005): 75-93.

Meamber, Laurie A. “Disney and the Presentation of Colonial America.” Consumption Markets and Culture 14.2 (2011): 125-44.

Miller, Susan and Greg Rode. “The Movie You See, The Movie You Don’t:   How Disney Do’s That Old Time Derision. From Mouse to Mermaid:  The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Eds. Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1995.  

Sells, Laura. “‘Where Do the Mermaids Stand?’:  Voice and Body in The Little Mermaid.” From Mouse to Mermaid:  The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Eds. Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1995.  

Sweeny, Meghan. “‘Where Happily Ever After Happens Every Day’: Disney’s Official Princess Website and the Commodification of Play.” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 3.2 (2011): 66-87.

Sun, Chyng Feng and Erica Sharrer.  “Staying True to Disney:  College Students’ Resistance to Criticism of The Little Mermaid.”  The Communication Review 7 (2004):  35-55.

Telotte, J.P. “Song of the South.”  Quarterly Review of Film and Video 27.5 (2010):  392-94.

Wasko, Janet. “Corporate Disney in Action.” Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy. Malden MA: Polity Press, 2001.