Tag Archives: Disney

Disney’s The Princess and the Frog: Cartoon Fantasy and Social Reflection

December 30th, 2009 | Posted in animation, cartoon, Disney, fantasy

I haven’t seen Walt Disney’s The Princess and the Frog movie yet, but living in a neighborhood with young families many of them have, and they seem to have enjoyed it. The television advertisements for the film make me a little wary since it is supposedly the best Disney cartoon since The Lion King. But […]

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Celebrating Creativity: Ub Iwerks and the Hand Behind the Mouse

July 17th, 2007 | Posted in animation, Disney, Ub Iwerks

This blog is devoted not only to an analysis of various facets of the fantastic, the imagination, and creativity in popular culture, but also to the sheer enjoyment and celebration of these things. With this in mind I highly recommend a documentary that has aired a couple of times now on the Ovation channel titled […]

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Magic and Fairytales: Reassessing the Hermeneutic

July 6th, 2007 | Posted in Disney, fairy tales, Harry Potter

The other day I was waiting in line at the post office and was scanning the walls, bored enough to read the various posters. One of them promoted a new line of stamps that is available. As I looked at the familiar images I was reminded that for some time aspects of the entertainment industry […]

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Disney’s Contributions to America’s Halloween Mythology

February 20th, 2007 | Posted in Disney, Halloween, Tim Burton

Last year I had an opportunity to do some research in preparation for a series of presentations at Cornerstone Festival in the Imaginarium venue looking at a historical and cross-cultural perspective on the development of Halloween. Some of the materials that I interacted with noted a variety of influences in current America’s celebration of this […]

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