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

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction Disney’s Retroprogressive Medievalisms: Where Yesterday is Tomorrow Today....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Mapping the Happiest Place on Earth: Disney’s Medieval Cartography....Pages 21-38
Disney’s Castles and the Work of the Medieval in the Magic Kingdom....Pages 39-56
Pilgrimage and Medieval Narrative Structures in Disney’s Parks....Pages 57-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
“You don’t Learn It Deliberately, But You Just Know It from What You’ve Seen”: British Understandings of the Medieval Past Gleaned from Disney’s Fairy Tales....Pages 77-96
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Animation and Alchemy in Disney’s Medievalism....Pages 97-113
The Sword in the Stone: American Translatio and Disney’s Antimedievalism....Pages 115-131
Walt in Sherwood, or the Sheriff of Disneyland: Disney and the Film Legend of Robin Hood....Pages 133-152
Futuristic Medievalisms and The U.S. Space Program in Disney’s Man in Space Trilogy And Unidentified Flying Oddball....Pages 153-167
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“Where Happily Ever After Happens Every Day”: The Medievalisms of Disney’s Princesses....Pages 171-188
Disney’s Medievalized Ecologies in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Sleeping Beauty....Pages 189-207
The United Princesses of America: Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Purity in Disney’s Medieval Past....Pages 209-224
Esmeralda of Notre-Dame: The Gypsy in Medieval View from Hugo to Disney....Pages 225-242
Reality Remixed: Neomedieval Princess Culture in Disney’s Enchanted....Pages 243-259
Back Matter....Pages 261-283