The Disney Middle Ages : a fairy-tale and fantasy past /

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Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Description:xii, 283 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:The New Middle Ages
New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8947913
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Other authors / contributors:Pugh, Tison.
Aronstein, Susan Lynn.
ISBN:9780230340077 (hardback)
0230340075 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past examines the intersection between the products of the Walt Disney Company and popular culture's fascination with the Middle Ages. The Disney Middle Ages have come, for many, to figure as the Middle Ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past for much of the contemporary western (and increasingly eastern) imaginary. The Disney Middle Ages explores Disney's accounts of the Middle Ages and their political and cultural ramifications, analyzing how these re-creations of a fairy-tale history function in modern society"--