Deconstructing Disney

Eleanor Byrne is a Lecturer in post-Colonial Literature at University College Worcester and writes on aspects of culture and postcoloniality.Martin McQuillan is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, London, where he is also Co-Director of The London Graduate School He is the author, along with Eleanor Byrne, of Deconstructing Disney (Pluto, 1999), Paul de Man (Routledge, 2000) and editor of The Narrative Reader (Routledge, 2000), Theorising Muriel Spark (AIAA, 2002) and The Politics of Deconstruction (Pluto, 2007).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction. Duckology: Political narrative in the age of deconstruction1. A Specter is Haunting Europe: Disney Rides Again Inter-mission2. Socialisme ou barbarie: Welcoming Disney3. Domesticated Animus: Engendering Disney4. Spectrographies: Conjuring Disney5. You Can’t Lionise the Lion: Racing Disney6. Its the Economy Stupid: Bill ‘n’ Disney7. King of the Swingers: Queering Disney8. Democracy Limited: Impeaching DisneyEpilogue: Disney WorkFilmographyIndex

'What could could be more innocent that Disney animated films? Eleanor Byrne and Martin McQuillan set out to prove how wrong that assumption is in their ideological critique. They join the growing number of critics who argue that Disney's hegemony in the contemporary world ... insightful and uncanny'