The Disney Middle Ages
Subtitle: a fairy-tale and fantasy past
By: edited by Tison Pugh, Susan Aronstein
Series: The New Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780230340077
Subjects: Medievalism in art; Walt Disney Productions; Middle Ages in motion pictures; Social aspects; Medievalism; HISTORY / Medieval; Commercial products; Fairy tales; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; Political aspects; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Description: "The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past examines the intersection between the products of the Walt Disney Company and popular culture's fascination with the Middle Ages. The Disney Middle Ages have come, for many, to figure as the Middle Ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past for much of the contemporary western (and increasingly eastern) imaginary. The Disney Middle Ages explores Disney's accounts of the Middle Ages and their political and cultural ramifications, analyzing how these re-creations of a fairy-tale history function in modern society"--