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The Disneyfication of animals / Rebecca Rose Stanton.

9783030493165 (electronic bk.)
3030493164 (electronic bk.)
3030493156
9783030493158

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

1 online resource (xxii, 225 pages)

10.1007/978-3-030-49

PN1995.9.A5 S73 2021eb

791.43662

This book critically examines how Walt Disney Animation Studios has depicted - and sometimes failed to depict - different forms of harming and objectifying non-human animals in their films. Each chapter addresses a different form of animal harm and objectification through the theories of speciesism, romanticism, and the 'collapse of compassion effect, from farming, hunting and fishing, to clothing, work, and entertainment. Stanton lucidly presents the dichotomy between depictions of higher order, anthropomorphised and neotonised animal characters and that of lower-order species, showing furthermore how these depictions are closely linked to changing social attitudes about acceptable forms of animal harm. An engaging and novel contribution to the field of Critical Animal Studies, this book explores the use of animals not only in Disneys best known animated films such as 101 Dalmatians, but also lesser known features including Home on the Range and Fun and Fancy Free. A quantitative appendix supplying data on how often each animal species appears and the amount of times animal harm or objectification is depicted in over fifty films provides an invaluable resource and addition to scholars working in both Disney and animal studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Palgrave Macmillan animal ethics series.

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