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FLME 4910 – Deconstructing Disney
Email: mbass16@gsu.edu
Office: 25 Park Pl, 1021D (10th Floor)
Visitation Hours: TR 12:00-2:00 or by appointment

Full Course Syllabus
FLME 4910 Spring 2018 Syllabus

Required Textbooks
– Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, & Laura Sells, From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture (Amazon)
– Marshall McQuillan & Eleanor Byrne, Deconstructing Disney (Amazon)

Recommended Textbooks
– Brenda Ayres, The Emperor’s Old Groove: Decolonizing Disney’s Magic Kingdom (Amazon)
– Henry A. Giroux & Grace Pollock, The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence (Amazon)
– Johnson Cheu, Diversity in Disney Films: Critical Essays on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and Disability (Amazon)
– Eric Smoodin, Disney Discourse: Producing the Magic Kingdom (Amazon)
– David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction, Ninth Edition (Amazon )

Additional Readings (Password Protected)

Resources
Technology and GSU
GSU College of the Arts Homepage
GSU Film, Media, & Theatre Homepage
GSU Semester Calendars and Exam Schedules
GSU Library Film Studies Home Page
GSU LIbrary Film and Video Research Guides
(Some) Georgia Film Festivals!
SWANK – GSU Library’s Streaming Service!
Kanopy – GSU Library’s Other Streaming Service!
Hoopla – Atlanta-Fulton Public Library’s Streaming Service!
Atlanta Fulton County Public Library
Criterion Channel
Adblock Plus
Videodrome Atlanta
Midtown Art Cinema Atlanta
Plaza Theatre Atlanta
Film Terms Glossary
Box Office Mojo
Film-Related Podcasts
How to Email a Professor
GSU Counseling Services
GSU Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic
GSU Writing Studio
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Gauntlett, “Essay-Writing: The Essential Guide”
A Brief Guide to Writing Film Papers
More Paper Tips
What is a Scholarly Article?
How to Find Scholarly Articles
Citation Styles Help
List of Disney Animated Films
Midterm Study Guide
Final Exam Study Guide

Lecture Notes
Artz – Monarchs, Monsters, and Multiculturalism (pgs. 75-83)
Artz – Monarchs, Monsters, and Multiculturalism (pgs. 83-98)
Bell – Somatexts at the Disney Shop
Buescher & Ono – Civilized Colonialism
Byrne & McQuillan – You Can’t Lionise the Lion
Card – Pinocchio
Giroux – Memory and Pedagogy
Giroux – Working For A Rodent
Henke et al. – Construction of the Female Self
Hurley – Seeing White: Children of Color and the Disney Fairy Tale Princess
Jeffords – The Curse of Masculinity
Limbach – “You the Man, Well, Sorta”: Gender Binaries and Liminality in Mulan
Luckett – Fantasia: Cultural Constructions of Disney’s “Masterpiece”
Miller & Rode – The Movie You See, The Movie You Don’t
Moffitt & Harris – Of Negation, Princesses, Beauty, and Work
Murphy – The Whole Wide World Was Scrubbed Clean
Payne – Bambi
Rudloff – (Post)Feminist Paradoxes
Sells – “Where Do the Mermaids Stand?”
Shaheen – Aladdin: Animated Racism / Byrne & McQuillan – Spectographies: Conjuring Disney
Sheng-mei Ma – Mulan Disney, It’s Like, Re-Orients
Zipes – Breaking the Disney Spell (pgs. 21-33)
Zipes – Breaking the Disney Spell (pgs. 33-42)

Extra Credit

The Bass Clan!