Full Description
A presence for decades in individuals' everyday life practices and identity formation, the Walt Disney Company has more recently also become an influential element within the "big" curriculum of public and private spaces outside of yet in proximity to formal educational institutions. Disney, Culture, and Curriculum explores the myriad ways that Disney's curricula and pedagogies manifest in public consciousness, cultural discourses, and the education system. Examining Disney's historical development and contemporary manifestations, this book critiques and deconstructs its products and perspectives while providing insight into Disney's operations within popular culture and everyday life in the United States and beyond.
The contributors engage with Disney's curricula and pedagogies in a variety of ways, through critical analysis of Disney films, theme parks, and planned communities, how Disney has been taught and resisted both in and beyond schools, ways in which fans and consumers develop and negotiate their identities with their engagement with Disney, and how race, class, gender, sexuality, and consumerism are constructed through Disney content. Incisive, comprehensive, and highly interdisciplinary, Disney, Culture, and Curriculum extends the discussion of popular culture as curriculum and pedagogy into new avenues by focusing on the affective and ontological aspects of identity development as well as the commodification of social and cultural identities, experiences, and subjectivities.
Contents
Foreword
Shirley R. Steinberg
Preface
Acknowledgements
Panning the Field: Museum Placard
Jorge Lucero
Panning the Field B
Jorge Lucero
Chapter 1: Introduction: Feeling Disney, Buying Disney, Being Disney
Jennifer A. Sandlin, Arizona State University
Julie Garlen Maudlin, Georgia Southern University
Part I: Feeling Disney: Disney Fears and Fantasies
Panning the Field C
Jorge Lucero
Chapter 2: waltdisneyconfessions@tumblr: Narrative, Subjectivity, and Reading Online Spaces of Confession
Tasha Ausman, University of Ottawa
Linda Radford, University of Ottawa
Chapter 3: Practical Pigs and Other Instrumental Animals: Public Pedagogies of Laborious Pleasure in Disney Productions
Jake Burdick, Purdue University
Chapter 4: "This Is No Ordinary Apple": Learning to Fail Spectacularly from the Queer Pedagogy of Disney's Diva Villains
Mark Helmsing, University of Wyoming
Chapter 5: The Postfeminist Princess: Public Discourse and Disney's Curricular Guide to Feminism
Michael Macaluso, Michigan State University
Chapter 6: "The Illusion of Life": Nature in the Animated Disney Curriculum
Caleb Steindam, Loyola University Chicago
Part II: Buying Disney: Commodified, Caricatured, and Contested Subjectivities
Panning the Field D
Jorge Lucero
Chapter 7: I Dream of a Disney World: Exploring Language, Curriculum, and Public Pedagogy in Brazil's Middle-Class Playground
Sandro Barros, Michigan State University
Chapter 8: If It Quacks Like a Duck. . . : The Classist Curriculum of Disney's Reality Television Shows
Robin Redmon Wright, Penn State Harrisburg
Chapter 9: Deliriumland: Disney and the Simulation of Utopia
Jason J. Wallin, University of Alberta
Chapter 10: Camp Disney: Consuming Queer Sensibilities, Commodifying the Normative
Will Letts, Charles Sturt University
Chapter 11: Black Feminist Thought and Disney's Paradoxical Representation of Black Girlhood in Doc McStuffins
Rachel Alicia Griffin, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Part III: Being Disney: Freedom, Participation, and Control
Panning the Field E
Jorge Lucero
Chapter 12: On the Count of Three—Magic, New Knowledge, and Learning at Walt Disney World
George J. Bey, III, Millsaps College
Chapter 13: Disneyfied/ized Participation in the Art Museum
Nadine M. Kalin, University of North Texas
Chapter 14: The Corseted Curriculum: Four Feminist Readings of a Strong Disney Princess
Annette Furo, University of Ottawa
Nichole Grant, University of Ottawa
Pamela Rogers, University of Ottawa
Kelsey Catherine Schmitz, University of Ottawa
Chapter 15: A New Dimension of Disney Magic: MyMagic+ and Controlled Leisure
Gabriel S. Huddleston, Texas Christian University
Julie Garlen Maudlin, Georgia Southern University
Jennifer A. Sandlin, Arizona State University
Chapter 16: Consuming Innocence: Disney's Corporate Stranglehold on Youth in the Digital Age
Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University
