Episode Summary

Disney’s Cinderella thrilled Erin and Rachel almost as much as it thrilled 1950 audiences, with “almost” being the operative word. The co-hosts revisit their favorite topics of gender roles and colonization, while also debating what, exactly, dreams are made of for the second Disney princess. 

Episode Bibliography

Beauchamp, F. (2010). Asian origins of Cinderella: The Zhuang storyteller of Guangxi. Oral Tradition, 25(2), 447-496.

Cinderella. (2020, June 20). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella

Cinderella (1950 fim). (2020, June 25) In Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20200619065636/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_(1950_film)

England, D. E., Descartes, L., Collier-Meek, M. A. (2011). Gender role portrayal and the Disney princesses. Sex Roles, 64, 555-567. 

Geronimi, C., Luske, H., & Jackson, W. (Directors). (1950). Cinderella [Film]. Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Giaimo, C. (2017, June 14). The ATU Fable Index: Like the Dewey Decimal System, But With More Ogres. Atlas Obscura. Retrieved from https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/aarne-thompson-uther-tale-type-index-fables-fairy-tales

Higgs, S. (2016). Damsels in development: Representation, transition, and the Disney princess. Screen Education, 83, 62-69. 

Hovdestad, W. E., Hubka, D., & Tonmyr, L. (2009). Unwanted personal contact and risky situations in ten Disney animated feature films. Child Abuse Review, 18, 111-126. 

Huggins, N. I. (1971). Harlem renaissance. Oxford University Press. 

Mahar, W. J. (1985). Black English in early Blackface minstrelsy: A new interpretation of the sources of minstrel show dialect. American Quarterly, 37(2), 260-285.

Maurice Rapf. (2020, June 25). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20190118074308/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Rapf

 Rosalind Sibielski (2019) Reviving Cinderella: Contested Feminism and Conflicting Models of Female Empowerment in 21st-Century Film and Television Adaptations of “Cinderella”, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 36:7, 584-610

Tennant, A. (Director). (1998). Ever After: A Cinderella Story [Film]. Twentieth Century Fox Films. 

Tóth, Z. A. (2017). Disney’s violent women: In quest of a ‘fully real’ violent woman in American cinema. Brno Studies in English, 43(1), 185-212.

Wood, N. (1996). Domesticating dreams in Walt Disney’s Cinderella. The Lion and the Unicorn, 20 (1), 25-43. doi:10.1353/uni.1996.0003

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In this bonus episode, Erin and Rachel unpack The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949), and debate which is the most frightening: the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow, Mr. Toad’s untreated mental illness, or the complete lack of female and BIPOC representation in this film.

Episode Bibliography:

Burton, N. (2012). A short history of bipolar disorder. Psychology Today. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201206/short-history-bipolar-disorder

Conradt, Stacy. (2016). 11 Hair-Raising Facts About Disney's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Mental Floss. Retrieved from https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/87938/11-hair-raising-facts-about-disneys-legend-sleepy-hollow

Cox, C., & Marland, H. (2018). “We are recreating Bedlam”: A history of mental illness and prison systems in England and Ireland. In A. Mills & K. Kendall (Eds.), Mental health in prisons: Critical perspectives on treatment and confinement. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK539382/

Daigrepont, L. M. (1984). Ichabod Crane: Inglorious man of letters. Early American Literature, 19, 69-81.

Grahame, K. (1908). The Wind in the Willows. Methuen.

Grob, G. N. (1977). Rediscovering asylums: The unhistorical history of the mental hospital. The Hastings Center Report, 7(4), 33-41. 

Johnson, D. (2014). Classic No. 11 The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949). The Disney Odyssey. Retrieved from https://thedisneyodyssey.wordpress.com/2014/01/13/classic-no-11-the-adventures-of-ichabod-and-mr-toad-1949/

Kinney, J., Geronimi, C., & Algar, J. (Directors). (1949). The adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad [Film]. Walt Disney Productions. 

Irving, W. (2008). The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved from https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41/41-h/41-h.htm. 

Irving, W. (1996). The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. Oxford University Press. 

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20200611214531/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Ichabod_and_Mr._Toad

Episode Summary:

As unofficial ambassador of Franklin Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor approach to foreign policy, Walt Disney traveled to South America on a so-called “goodwill tour,” the results of which were Saludos Amigos (1942) and The Three Caballeros (1944). Join Erin and Rachel for this special double episode as they unpack the political and cultural influence of these lesser known “package” films.

Episode Bibliography:

Adams, D. (2007). Saludos Amigos: Hollywood and FDR’s Good Neighbor Policy. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 24(3), 289-295. 

Ferguson, N., Geronimi, C., Kinney, J., & Roberts, B. (Directors). (1944). The Three Caballeros [Film]. Walt Disney Productions.

Ferguson, N., Jackson, W., Kinney, J., Luske, H., & Roberts, B. (Directors). (1942). Saludos Amigos [Film]. Walt Disney Productions.

Gluck, K. (2016). Walt and the Goodwill Tour. The Walt Disney Family Museum Blog. https://www.waltdisney.org/blog/walt-and-goodwill-tour

Goldman, K. S. (2014). Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros: The representation of Latin American in Disney’s “Good Neighbor” films.  In J. Cheu (Ed.), Diversity in Disney films: Critical essays on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability (pp. 23-37). McFarland & Company.

Good Neighbor Policy. Wikipedia. https://web.archive.org/web/20200430054658/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Neighbor_policy

Growther, B. (1943). The Screen; ‘Saludos Amigos,’ a Musical Fantasy Based on the South American Tour Made by Walt Disney, Arrives at the Globe. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1943/02/13/archives/the-screen-saludos-amigos-a-musical-fantasy-based-on-the-south.html

Minster, C. (2020). The history of Latin America in the Colonial Era." ThoughtCo. Retrieved from thoughtco.com/introduction-to-the-colonial-era-2136329.

Nelson, A. K. (2017). José, Joe, Zé Carioca: Walt Disney’s Good Neighbor colonial “monument” in Brazil (Publication No. 6246) [Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University]. All Theses and Dissertations. 

Ness, M. (2016). An Aggressive Escape from Reality: The Three Caballeros. Tor.com. https://www.tor.com/2016/08/11/an-aggressive-escape-from-reality-the-three-caballeros/

Ness, M. (2016). Donald Duck’s Goodwill Tour: Saludos Amigos. Tor.com. https://www.tor.com/2016/08/04/donald-ducks-goodwill-tour-saludos-amigos/

Riddle, S. (2020). Steve’s Wonderful Review of Disney: The Three Caballeros. Place to be Nation. http://placetobenation.com/steves-wonderful-reviews-of-disney-the-three-caballeros/

Saludos Amigos. Wikipedia. https://web.archive.org/web/20200519042935/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saludos_Amigos

Saludos Amigos Holds its World Premiere in Rio de Janeiro. (1942). D23. https://d23.com/this-day/saludos-amigos-holds-its-world-premiere-in-rio-de-janeiro/

Telotte, J. P. (2007). Crossing borders and opening boxes: Disney and hybrid animation. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 24(2), 107-116. 

The Three Caballeros. Wikipedia.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200519042905/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Caballeros

Victory Through Air Power (film). Wikipedia. https://web.archive.org/web/20200410094036/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Through_Air_Power_(film)

Episode Summary:

Hear how “twitterpated” Erin and Rachel both are with Bambi (1942), the delightful classic that chronicles the lives of forest creatures with a heavy-handed conservationist agenda. Widely panned by critics following its initial release, this is the first time the grade Erin assigned on behalf of 1942 viewers is lower than the grade Rachel assigned based on a current day perspective! 

Episode Bibliography:

Bálint, E. (2013). The representation of women in Walt Disney’s productions in the studio era. Americana, 9(2), 8-8.

Bambi. Wikipedia. https://web.archive.org/web/20200515132816/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi

Bambi, a Life in the Woods. Wikipedia. https://web.archive.org/web/20200515023159/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi,_a_Life_in_the_Woods

Brooks, K. (2017). Tyrus Wong, the ‘Bambi’ artists who endured America’s racism, gets his due. Chinese American Forum, 33(2), 32-33.

Cartmill, M. (1993). The Bambi syndrome. Natural History, 102(6), 6-11.

Dudley, S. (2018). The Making of Bambi: A Prince is Born (Full Documentary). Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmCiuNotEwU

Hand, D. (Director). (1942). Bambi [Film]. Walt Disney Productions. 

King, M. (1996). The audience in the wilderness. Journal of Popular Film & Television, 96(24), 60-69.

Ross, M. (2012). The Biology of Bachelor Groups. Quality Deer Management Association. https://www.qdma.com/biology-bachelor-groups/

Salten, F. (1923). Bambi: A life in the woods. Ullstein Verlag.

Taylor, D. E. (2000). The rise of the environmental justice paradigm: Injustice framing and the social construction of environmental discourses. American Behavioral Scientists, 43(4), 508-580.

Whitley, D. (2012). The idea of nature in Disney animation: From Snow White to WALL-E (2nd ed.). Ashgate.

Wills, J. (2011). Bambi. https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/bambi.pdf

Episode Summary

Erin and Rachel unpack Disney’s pachyderm-focused 1941 film, Dumbo. This beloved classic helped Walt Disney Studios recover financially from previous box office busts and an animator strike. Despite being the shortest Disney animated film at only 64 minutes, there’s no shortage of racism, sexism, or horrifying elephant-based hallucinations. 

Episode Bibliography

Andrews, T. (2019, March 29). The original ‘Dumbo’ was decried as racist. Here’s how Tim 

Burton’s version addresses that. The Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/03/29/original-dumbo-was-

decried-racist-heres-how-tim-burtons-version-addresses-that/

Booker, M. K. (2010). Disney, Pixar, and the hidden messages of children's films. Praeger. 

Davis, J. M. (2002). The circus age: Culture and society under the American big top. University of North Carolina Press. 

Dumbo. Wikipedia.

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Gullickson, B. (2019, April 1). ‘Dumbo’ Began Life As A Failed Novelty Concept. Film School Rejects. https://filmschoolrejects.com/dumbo-history/

Kirst, S. (March 22, 2019). The tale behind Dumbo, from Dick Case: How the little elephant took off in Syracuse. Syracuse.com. https://www.syracuse.com/kirst/2015/10/the_tale_of_dumbo_from_dick_case_the_little_elephant_took_off_in_syracuse.html

LPA issues statement to abolish the “m” word. (2015, September). Little People of America.  https://www.lpaonline.org/the-m-word

Longworth, K. [Host]. (2015, March 31). 39: Star Wars Episode XIII: Walt Disney (39) [Audio  Podcast Episode]. In You Must Remember This. Stitcher. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/you-must-remember-this/e/45778139

Longworth, K. [Host]. (2019, Oct. 21). 146: Disney’s Most Controversial Film (Six Degrees of Song of the South, Episode 1) (146) [Audio Podcast Episode]. In You Must Remember This. Stitcher. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/you-must-remember-this/e/64754971

Mettler, K. (May 2, 2016). After 145 years, Ringling Bros. Circus elephants perform for the last time. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/02/after-145-years-ringling-bros-circus-elephants-perform-for-the-last-time/

Norman, F. (n.d.). Black crows and other PC nonsense. Mr. Fun’s Journal. https://floydnormancom.squarespace.com/blog/2019/4/27/black-crows-and-other-pc-nonsense

Sharpsteen, B. (Director). (1941). Dumbo [Film]. Walt Disney Productions.  

Episode Summary

Erin and Rachel review Disney’s Fantasia (1940) segment by segment and discuss the film’s repeated racist, female objectifying, and fatphobic imagery. But the music and unicorns are pretty! Maybe there’s a reason Disney likes to focus on Sorcerer Mickey when they talk about this film...

Episode Bibliography

Armstrong, S., Algar, J., Roberts, B., Satterfield, P., Sharpsteen, B., Hand, D.D., Luske, H., Handley, J., Beebe, F., Hee, T., Ferguson, N., & Jackson, W. (Directors). (1940). Fantasia [Film]. Walt Disney Productions.  

Clague, M. (2004). Playing in ‘toon: Walt Disney’s Fantasia (1940) and the imagineering of classical music. American Music, 22(1), 91-109.

Daly, S. (November 29, 1991). Changes in the restored version of “Fantasia.” Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved from https://ew.com/article/1991/11/29/changes-restored-version-fantasia/

Dotsey, C. (December 26, 2017). The Making of Fantasia: Disney’s Masterpiece. Houston Symphony. Retrieved from  https://houstonsymphony.org/disney-fantasia/

Fantasia (1940 film). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20200405220323/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia_(1940_film)

Gabler, J. (October 5, 2015). 'Rite of Spring': A classic 'Fantasia' segment, whether Stravinsky liked it or not. Classical Minnesota Public Radio. Retrieved from https://www.classicalmpr.org/story/2015/10/05/rite-spring-fantasia

Gabler, N. (November 2015). Disney’s “Fantasia” Was Initially a Critical and Box-Office Failure. Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/disney-fantasia-critical-box-office-failure-180956963/

[Official Business]. (February 22, 2019). Fantasia (1940) Sunflower comparison BEST QUALITY [Video]. Youtube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeE-yaev7bM

Sergeant, D. C., & Himonides, E. (2019). Ochestrated sex: The representation of male and female musicians in world-class symphony orchestras. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1-18.

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Erin and Rachel offer a less favorable take on Disney’s Pinocchio (1940) than the 100% Rotten Tomato rating of this film might suggest. They discuss the historical context of WWII in which the film was released and consider how this relates to the film’s themes about morality and family relationships. 

Episode Bibliography

Allan, R. (1999). Walt Disney and Europe: European Influences on the Animated Feature Films of Walt Disney. Indiana University Press.

Barrier, M. (1999). Hollywood cartoons: American animation in its Golden Age. Oxford University Press.

Collodi, C. (1926). The adventures of Pinocchio. (C. D. Chiesa, Trans.). (Original work published 1883). Retrieved from https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio/Chapter_1

Gilligan, C. (1977). In a different voice: Women's conceptions of self and of morality. Harvard Educational Review, 47(4), 481-517.

Kohlberg, L. (1963). The development of children's orientations toward a moral order: I. Sequence in the development of moral thought. Vita Humana, 6(1), 11–33.

Koski, G. (2014, November 11). How Pinocchio set the standard for feature animation. The 

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rd-for-feature-animati/

Maltin, Leonard. (2000). The Disney Films. Disney Editions.

Miller, D.D. & Martin, P. (1956). My Dad, Walt Disney: Part 6 “Disney’s Folly.” Saturday Evening 

Post, 229(20). Retrieved from http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/Disneys-Folly1.pdf

Pak, E. (2019). Walt Disney’s rocky road to success. Retrieved from https://www.biography.com/news/walt-disney-failures

Pinocchio (1940 Film). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from 

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Robinson, T. & Rabin, N. (2014, November 11). Pinocchio’s Dark Horror－and Darker Source 

Material. The Dissolve. Retrieved from 

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Sharpsteen, B., & Luske, H. (Directors). (1940). Pinocchio [Film]. Walt Disney Productions. 

Solomon, C. (1989). Enchanted drawings: The history of animation. Alfred A. Knopf.

Susman, G. Disney's 'Pinocchio': 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Animated Classic.  

Moviefone. Retrieved from 

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ntures_of_Pinocchio

Episode Summary

Erin and Rachel discuss Disney's first full-length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, snidely referred to by critics as "Disney's Folly" before its release and subsequent box office success in 1937. The hosts unpack the impact of this groundbreaking film on popular culture, including its sexist and ableist themes. 

Episode Bibliography

Aloff, M. (2013). Disney’s Snow White at 75. Virginia Quarterly Review, 89(1), 238-244. 

England, D. E., Descartes, L., Collier-Meek, M. A. (2011). Gender role portrayal and the Disney princesses. Sex Roles, 64, 555-567. 

Esmail, S., Darry, K., Walter, A., & Knupp, H. (2010). Attitudes and perceptions towards disability and sexuality. Disability Rehabilitation,  32(14), 1148-1155. 

[fireurgunz]. (2008, August 12). Walt Disney’s multiplane camera (Filmed: Feb. 13, 1957) [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdHTlUGN1zw

Frome, J. (2013). Snow White: Critics and criteria for the animated feature film. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 30(5), 462-473. DOI: 10.1080/10509208.2011.585300

Higgs, S. (2016). Damsels in development: Representation, transition, and the Disney princess. Screen Education, 83, 62-69. 

Hovdestad, W. E., Hubka, D., & Tonmyr, L. (2009). Unwanted personal contact and risky situations in ten Disney animated feature films. Child Abuse Review, 18, 111-126. 

Kuhn, A.F. (2010). Snow White in 1930s Britain. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 7(2), 183-199. 

Lenz, L. (2017, June 14). A brief history of dwarism. Pacific Standard. https://psmag.com/social-justice/a-brief-history-of-dwarfism-and-the-little-people-of-america

Little People of America. https://www.lpaonline.org/

Longworth, K. [Host]. (2015, March 31). 39: Star Wars Episode XIII: Walt Disney (39) [Audio Podcast Episode]. In You Must Remember This. Stitcher. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/you-must-remember-this/e/45778139

Miller, D.D. & Martin, P. (1956). My Dad, Walt Disney: Part 6 “Disney’s Folly.” Saturday Evening Post, 229(20). Retrieved February 28, 2020, from http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/Disneys-Folly1.pdf

Morey, L., Hand, D., Sharpsteen, B., Jackson, W., Pearce, P., Cottrell, W. (Directors). Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (1937). The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Animation Studios. Disney+.

Pfeiffer, Lee (2010, July 12). Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved February 28, 2020, from https://www.britannica.com/topic/Snow-White-and-the-Seven-Dwarfs-film-1937

Tóth, Z. A. (2017). Disney’s violent women: In quest of a ‘fully real’ violent woman in American cinema. Brno Studies in English, 43(1), 185-212.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 Film). In Wikipedia. Retrieved February 26, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20200203011808/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film)

Whelan, B. (2012). Power to the princess: Disney and the creation of the 20th century princess narrative. Interdisciplinary Humanities, 29(1), 21-34. 

Whitley, D. (1997). The idea of nature in Disney animation. Ashgate.

Wright, T. M. (1997) Romancing the tale: Walt Disney's adaptation of the Grimms' “Snow White.” Journal of Popular Film and Television, 25(3), 98-108.

Youngs, G. (1999). The ghost of Snow White. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 311-314.