Disney Gothic

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Edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock - Contributions by Murray Leeder; Terry Lindvall; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock; Jay Bamber; Carl H. Sederholm; Kathy Merlock Jackson; Gwyneth Peaty; Kevin J. Wetmore; J.S. Mackley; Nancy Johnson-Hunt

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In this edited collection exploring Disney's dark side, attention to Disney's Gothic reveals the ways through which Disney productions construct and reinforce conceptions of normalcy and deviance in relation to shifting understandings of morality, social roles, and identity categories.

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Introduction: Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse

Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Part 1: Dark Beginnings and Gothic Technologies

Chapter 1: Silly Spookiness: The Skeletons of Early Disney

Murray Leeder

Chapter 2: From Gothic to Gags: Disney's Comic Deconstruction of Death

Terry Lindvall

Chapter 3: Hidden Histories: The Many Ghosts of Disney's Haunted Mansion

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Chapter 4: Monsters on the Mouse-Tube: The Gothic Horror Cinematic Tradition and the Disney Channel Original Movie

Jay Bamber

Chapter 5: Sinister Surveillance: Threatened Youth in Disney's Watcher in the Woods and Something Wicked This Way Comes

Carl H. Sederholm and Kathy Merlock Jackson

Chapter 6: The Game is Playing Itself: Fear, Technology, and the Disney Slasher

Gwyneth Peaty

Part 2: Monsters and Magic

Chapter 7: Disney's Tetratologies: Animated Discourses on Monsters and Heroes

Kevin J. Wetmore

Chapter 8: 'Who is the monster and who is the man?': Disney's Medieval Gothic in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

J.S. Mackley

Chapter 9: Voodoo, Hoodoo, and Friends on the Other Side: Magic, Cultural Echoes, and the Gothic Trajectories of Difference in Disney's The Princess and the Frog

Nancy Johnson-Hunt and Lorna Piatti-Farnell

Chapter 10: The Human/Animal Divide: Feral Children, Liminalities, and the Gothic in Disney's The Jungle Book and Tarzan

Antonio Sanna

Chapter 11: Primitive Life and Animated Death: Fantasia's 'Rite of Spring' as Ecogothic

Christy Tidwell

Part 3: Something Wicked

Chapter 12: Maleficent: Monstrosity, Truth, and Post-Truth in Disney's Transmedia Fairyverse

Joan Ormrod

Chapter 13: Mother Knows Best: Questioning the Moral and the Immoral in Disney's Tangled

Angelique Nairn

Chapter 14: The Vampire Queen of the Disney Scene: The Vampiric, Gothic Excess of Ursula from The Little Mermaid

Simon Bacon

Chapter 15: Gorgeous, Vicious and a "Little Bit Mad": Queer-Gothic and Excessive Desire in Cruella

Blair Speakman