Demystifying Disney
Subtitle: a history of Disney feature animation
By: Chris Pallant
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781441174215
Subjects: Animated films; Walt Disney Company; History and criticism
Description: Demystifying Disney: A History of Disney Feature Animation provides a comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date examination of the Disney studio's evolution through its animated films. In addition to challenging certain misconceptions concerning the studio's development, the study also brings scholarly definition to hitherto neglected aspects of contemporary Disney. Through a combination of economic, cultural, historical, textual, and technological approaches, this book provides a discriminating analysis of Disney authorship, and the authorial claims of others working within the studio; conceptual and theoretical engagement with the constructions of 'Classic' Disney, the Disney Renaissance, and Neo-Disney; Disney's relationship with other studios; how certain Disney animations problematise a homogeneous reading of the studio's output; and how the studio's animation has changed as a consequence of new digital technologies. For all those interested in gaining a better understanding of one of cinema's most popular and innovative studios, this will be an invaluable addition to the existing literature
Notes: Section 1: Re-examining Disney -- Disney authorship -- A history of innovation -- Section 2: Early and middle Disney feature animation -- Disney formalism -- Destino -- Disney in transition -- Section 3: Contemporary Disney feature animation -- The Disney renaissance -- Neo-Disney -- Digital Disney -- Conclusion: 'Happily ever after'.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.