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Subject(s)

• Walt Disney Company [Browse]
• Musical films—United States—History and criticism [Browse]
• Animated films—United States—History and criticism [Browse]
• Musicals—United States—History and criticism [Browse]

Editor

• Broomfield-McHugh, Dominic [Browse]
• Montgomery, Colleen [Browse]

Series

• Oxford handbooks [More in this series]
• Oxford handbooks series [More in this series]

Summary note

"The Oxford Handbook of the Disney Musical brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to interrogate an enduringly popular and influential cultural phenomenon. Broadening the purview of extant scholarship while also reflecting its methodological multiplicity, this collection takes an expansive approach to the Disney musical. By representing the perspectives of scholars from film, theater, television, musicology, children's literature, and cultural studies, we aimed to create a multidisciplinary resource on the subject as a whole. From animated musical shorts to Disney video games, the Handbook acknowledges that Disney uses the musical across a range of media and explores what that means culturally, commercially and technologically. The book covers case studies from the classical (Alice in Wonderland, Bambi) and more contemporary (Aladdin, Frozen II) eras, acknowledges the importance of theme parks, television, and video games to Disney's success, and explores cultural figures and themes. The company's complicated relationship with race, gender and sexuality is also unpacked and its recent centennial provides an apt opportunity to reflect on the importance of the musical to the conglomerate's evolution in diverse segments of the media industries. Taken together, the book's combines of innovative original research, analyses of previously unexamined archival documents, case studies, topical discussions, and critiques of current knowledge/existing scholarship to give voice to new perspectives on this important topic"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Act one : the beginnings of the Disney Musical / JB Kaufman
• Music, nature, and materiality in Bambi / Daniel Batchelder
• Musical evocation, intertextuality, and accompaniment in early Disney cartoons / Malcolm Cook
• "Whistle while you work..." : Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the depression musical and the American Dream / Tracey Mollet
• Hall Johnson, The Hall Johnson Choir, and Disney : 1941-56 / Julianne Lindberg
• New Agrabah, same old Disney orientalism : commodity racism and Western effacement of the "Middle East" / Michelle Anya Anjirbag
• Mutating Stitch : shifting approaches to vocal performance and language in the Lilo & Stitch (2002) franchise / Rayna Denison
• From Victoriana to vaudeville : Alice's adventures in musical adaptation / Dominic Broomfield-McHugh
• Fidelity-fiduciary-expialidocious : Mary Poppins' returns / Sean Griffin
• 'Come on, Song! I'm reflecting!' Reinterpretations of the musical in Disney's contemporary sequels and remakes / Eve Benhamou
• Haven't I seen this somewhere before : The little mermaid live!, Content cannibalization, and Disney's television legacy / Kelly Kessler
• Lady and the transcription : Peggy Lee's legal battle with Disney / Colleen Montgomery
• Singing mice and grunting reindeer : musical representations of the nonhuman and relating to animals in Disney animated musicals / Kate Galloway
• The original film and its Broadway sequel: epic Mickey and epic Mickey / Lisa Scoggin
• The Jungle book vultures and generational listening / Elizabeth Randell Upton
• That's integration! Digital VFX technologies in the Disney renaissance musicals (1989-1999) / Christopher Holliday
• Animated color, surrealism, and the Latin American Disney musicals / Kirsten Moana Thompson
• The Disney diva / Deborah Paredez and Stacy Wolf
• Negotiable diversity : how the Frozen franchise Disneyfied Sámi music and culture / Mihaela Mihailova
• Television girlhoods, the musical : diversity, imperfection, and embedded fan practices in Disney Channel's Descendants (2015) / Morgan Genevieve Blue
• The Disney musical and Latinidad in the 21st century : imagineering con sabrosura / Jacqueline Avila and Juan Fernando Velasquez Ospina
• Before the Beast : entertainment conglomerates on Broadway in the 1980s / Elizabeth Wollman
• Synergy, demographics, and the Disney Broadway playbook / Dean Adams
• We're all in this together : Disney theatricals in partnership / Amy Osatinski
• An ethnographic and critical approach to Disney musicals in school / Sammy Grob and Stacy Wolf
• "There may be something there that wasn't there before" : new songs in Disney's Broadway musicals / Alex Bádue
• Finding Nemo: the musical : when theatre is a theme park attraction / Jennifer A. Kokai and Tom Robson.

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ISBN

• 9780197633496 (hardcover)
• 0197633498 (hardcover)

LCCN

2024058889

OCLC

1477936182

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