Disney, Culture, and Curriculum

Jennifer A. Sandlin is Associate Professor in the Justice and Social Inquiry program in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, USA.Julie C. Garlen is Associate Professor of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Georgia Southern University, USA.

• ForewordShirley R. SteinbergPreface AcknowledgementsPanning the Field: Museum PlacardJorge LuceroPanning the Field BJorge LuceroChapter 1: Introduction: Feeling Disney, Buying Disney, Being DisneyJennifer A. Sandlin, Arizona State UniversityJulie Garlen Maudlin, Georgia Southern University Part I: Feeling Disney: Disney Fears and FantasiesPanning the Field CJorge LuceroChapter 2: waltdisneyconfessions@tumblr: Narrative, Subjectivity, and Reading Online Spaces of ConfessionTasha Ausman, University of OttawaLinda Radford, University of OttawaChapter 3: Practical Pigs and Other Instrumental Animals: Public Pedagogies of Laborious Pleasure in Disney ProductionsJake Burdick, Purdue UniversityChapter 4: "This Is No Ordinary Apple": Learning to Fail Spectacularly from the Queer Pedagogy of Disney’s Diva VillainsMark Helmsing, University of WyomingChapter 5: The Postfeminist Princess: Public Discourse and Disney’s Curricular Guide to Feminism Michael Macaluso, Michigan State UniversityChapter 6: "The Illusion of Life": Nature in the Animated Disney CurriculumCaleb Steindam, Loyola University ChicagoPart II: Buying Disney: Commodified, Caricatured, and Contested SubjectivitiesPanning the Field DJorge LuceroChapter 7: I Dream of a Disney World: Exploring Language, Curriculum, and Public Pedagogy in Brazil’s Middle-Class PlaygroundSandro Barros, Michigan State UniversityChapter 8: If It Quacks Like a Duck. . . : The Classist Curriculum of Disney’s Reality Television ShowsRobin Redmon Wright, Penn State Harrisburg Chapter 9: Deliriumland: Disney and the Simulation of UtopiaJason J. Wallin, University of AlbertaChapter 10: Camp Disney: Consuming Queer Sensibilities, Commodifying the NormativeWill Letts, Charles Sturt UniversityChapter 11: Black Feminist Thought and Disney’s Paradoxical Representation of Black Girlhood in Doc McStuffinsRachel Alicia Griffin, Southern Illinois University at CarbondalePart III: Being Disney: Freedom, Participation, and ControlPanning the Field EJorge LuceroChapter 12: On the Count of Three—Magic, New Knowledge, and Learning at Walt Disney WorldGeorge J. Bey, III, Millsaps CollegeChapter 13: Disneyfied/ized Participation in the Art MuseumNadine M. Kalin, University of North TexasChapter 14: The Corseted Curriculum: Four Feminist Readings of a Strong Disney PrincessAnnette Furo, University of OttawaNichole Grant, University of OttawaPamela Rogers, University of OttawaKelsey Catherine Schmitz, University of OttawaChapter 15: A New Dimension of Disney Magic: MyMagic+ and Controlled LeisureGabriel S. Huddleston, Texas Christian University Julie Garlen Maudlin, Georgia Southern UniversityJennifer A. Sandlin, Arizona State UniversityChapter 16: Consuming Innocence: Disney’s Corporate Stranglehold on Youth in the Digital AgeHenry A. Giroux, McMaster University

[T]he perspectives offered in Disney, culture, and curriculum are valuable contri-butions to the complex context of adult interest in and influence on that which might superficially be categorised as children’s play things."Sarah Goldsmith, Glasgow Caledonian University, International Journal of Play