Diversity in Disney Films: Critical Essays on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and Disability

by Johnson Cheu

Book Overview

Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural in its filmic fare and its image. From Aladdin and Pocahontas to the Asian American boy Russell in Up, from the first African American princess in The Princess and the Frog to "Spanish-mode" Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 3, Disney films have come to both mirror and influence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786446013
• ISBN13: 9780786446018
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher