
Mouse Morality : The Rhetoric of Disney Animated Film.
Title:
Mouse Morality : The Rhetoric of Disney Animated Film.
Author:
Ward, Annalee R.
ISBN:
9780292798663
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (200 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- FOREWORD by Clifford G. Christians -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- One: Disney, Film, and Morality: A Beginning -- Disney as Moral Educator -- Concern for Morality -- A Unique Audience -- Method of Research -- Definitions -- Reading the Texts -- Two: THE LION KING: Moral Educator through Myth, Archetype, and Ritual -- Film Background -- Mythic Narrative -- Archetype -- Ritual -- Communication Tools -- THE LION KING as Moral Educator -- Three: POCAHONTAS: The Symbolic Boundaries of Moral Order -- Film Background -- Disney and History -- Symbolic Boundaries of Moral Order -- Conclusion -- Four: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME: Comically Framing Virtue and Vice -- Film Background -- Interpretive Frames -- Virtue Ethics -- Conclusion -- Five: HERCULES: A Celebrity-Hero -- Film Background -- Identification through Narrative Strategies -- Conclusion -- Six: MULAN: East Meets West -- Film Background -- Interculturalism -- Moral Tensions -- Conclusion -- Seven: A Disney Worldview: Mixed Moral Messages -- A Disney Worldview -- Implications of the Disney Worldview for Culture -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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