The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past

by Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein

Book Overview

For many, the middle ages depicted in Walt Disney movies have come to figure as the middle ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past for much of the contemporary Western (and increasingly Eastern) imagination. The essayists of The Disney Middle Ages explore Disney's mediation and re-creation of a fairy-tale and fantasy past, not to lament its exploitation of the middle ages for corporate ends, but to examine how and why these medieval...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230340075
• ISBN13: 9780230340077
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"