The Rescuers (Collins Modern Classics)

The Rescuers (Collins Modern Classics)
Author: Margery Sharp
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2012-07-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 000739070X

Bianca and Bernard, agents for The Prisoners' Aid Society of Mice, rescue prisoners and outwit villains in this enchanting story, made world-famous by the Walt Disney film.

Disney's Adventure Stories

Disney's Adventure Stories
Author: Sarah Heller
Publisher: Disney Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-03-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780786832903

A collection of well-known fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, illustrated with scenes from Walt Disney films.

Halliwell's Film, Video & DVD Guide 2008

Halliwell's Film, Video & DVD Guide 2008
Author: David Gritten
Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Limited
Total Pages: 1396
Release: 2007
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780007260805

More than 24,000 entries provide plot summaries, a star rating, and information on casts, writers, directors, producers, awards, and alternate titles, with quotations from contemporary reviews.

The Disney Book

The Disney Book
Author: Jim Fanning
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: Animated films
ISBN:

From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Wish, Mary Poppins to The Little Mermaid, Disneyland to Tokyo DisneySea, and the fireworks to fan clubs, explore the captivating worlds and groundbreaking creations of Disney and Pixar in this fully updated guide. Marvel at beautiful art and artifacts from The Walt Disney Company's vast historical collections, and discover imaginative moviemaking, enchanting parks, and fascinating collectibles.

Demystifying Disney

Demystifying Disney
Author: Chris Pallant
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2011-07-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1441150463

Demystifying Disney: A History of Disney Feature Animation provides a comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date examination of the Disney studio's evolution through its animated films. In addition to challenging certain misconceptions concerning the studio's development, the study also brings scholarly definition to hitherto neglected aspects of contemporary Disney. Through a combination of economic, cultural, historical, textual, and technological approaches, this book provides a discriminating analysis of Disney authorship, and the authorial claims of others working within the studio; conceptual and theoretical engagement with the constructions of 'Classic' Disney, the Disney Renaissance, and Neo-Disney; Disney's relationship with other studios; how certain Disney animations problematise a homogeneous reading of the studio's output; and how the studio's animation has changed as a consequence of new digital technologies. For all those interested in gaining a better understanding of one of cinema's most popular and innovative studios, this will be an invaluable addition to the existing literature.

Disney Stories

Disney Stories
Author: Krystina Madej
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030427382

The second edition of Disney Stories: Getting to Digital will be of interest to lovers of Disney history and also to lovers of Hollywood history in general. The first edition was planned as a short history of the companies evolution from analog storytelling to a digital online presence that closed the chapter on early Disney films with the release of the groundbreaking Snow White. The purpose of the new edition is to bring to readers a more complete view of the analog-digital story by including three new chapters on film that cover key developments from the live-animation hybrids of the 1940s to CAPS and CGI in the 1990s and VR in the 2010s. It also includes in the discussion of cross-media storytelling the acquisition of the exceptional story property, Star Wars, and discusses how Disney has brought the epic into the Disney Master Narrative by creating Galaxy’s Edge in its US theme parks. Krystina Madej’s engaging portrayal of the long history of Disney’s love affair with storytelling and technology brings to life the larger focus of innovation in creating characters and stories that captivate an audience, and together with Newton Lee’s detailed experience of Disney during the crucial 1995-2005 era when digital innovation in online and games was at its height in the company, makes for a fast-paced captivating read. Disney Stories first edition explored the history of Disney, both analog and digital. It described in detail how Walt Disney used inventive and often ground-breaking approaches in the use of sound, color, depth, and the psychology of characters to move the animation genre from short visual gags to feature-length films with meaningful stories that engaged audience's hearts as well as tickled their funny bones. It showed Walt’s comprehensive approach to engaging the public across all media as he built the Disney Master Narrative by using products, books, comics, public engagements, fan groups such as the Mickey Mouse club, TV, and, of course, Disneyland, his theme park. Finally it showed how, after his passing, the company continued to embrace Walt’s enthusiasm for using new technology to engage audiences through their commitment to innovation in digital worlds. It describes in detail the innovative storybook CD-ROMs, their extensive online presence, the software they used and created for MMORGs such as Toontown, and the use of production methods such as agile methodology. This new edition provides insight on major developments in Disney films that moved them into the digital world.

Discussing Disney

Discussing Disney
Author: Amy M. Davis
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2019-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0861969626

These scholarly essays examine Disney’s cultural impact from various perspectives—including film studies, history, musicology, gender and more. The academic field of Disney Studies has evolved greatly over the years, as the twelve essays collected in this volume demonstrate. With a diversity of perspectives and concerns, the contributors examine the cultural significance and impact of the Disney Company’s various outputs, such as animated shorts and films, theme park attractions, television shows, books, music, and merchandising. By looking at Disney from some of its many angles—including the history and the persona of its founder, a selection of its successful and not-so-successful films, its approaches to animation, its branding and fandom, and its reception and reinterpreted within popular culture—Discussing Disney offers a more holistic understanding of a company that has been, and continues to be, one of the most important forces in contemporary culture.