Kellie Deys is associate professor of English at Nichols College, where she chairs the English department and the Honors program. Denise F. Parrillo is associate professor of English at the Community College of Rhode Island.

• Introduction by Kellie Deys and Denise F. ParrilloSection 1: Maintaining Social Orders1. “We Don’t Like What We Don’t Understand”: Mob Mentality and Individualism in Beauty and the Beast and The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Kellie Deys2. Animated Fantasy and Isolation: The Asian Identity Vacuum in Disney’s Constructed Universe by Christopher Maiytt3. The Magic Island of Seabrook High: Disney Retcons the Civil Rights Movement in High School Musical Descendant Zombies by Aaron Clayton Section 2: Regulated Worlds of (Resisting) Children4. Do You Want to Build a Childhood Trauma?: Parental Agency and Authority in Disney’s Frozen by Denise A. Ayo5. “Because My World Would Be a Wonderland”: Fantasy Circumscription & Adult Constructions of Girlhood in Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953) by Joseph V. Giunta6. It Isn’t Just His Nose that Grows: Disney’s Pinocchio and the Erotic Afterlives of Errant Boys by Vincent A. LankewishSection 3: Challenging Social Constructs7. Who Can Be Super?: E

Kellie Deys and Denise F. Parrillo’s anthology—the first in Lexington Books’ Studies in Disney and Culture series—is a timely and welcome addition to the scholarly literature on the ‘Disneyverse.’ Its chapters explore power dynamics, obedience/resistance to authority, and related topics as represented in Disney and Pixar films from the 1990s through today. In clear and compelling terms, this book illustrates the importance of reading Disney/Pixar films ‘against the grain.’ It is an essential text for anyone interested in Disney’s longstanding cultural influence.