Disney and Philosophy : Truth, Trust, and a Little Bit of Pixie Dust.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors: "It's a Whole Family of Supers" -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I "The Seaweed Is Always Greener in Somebody Else's Lake" -- Chapter 1 Unruly Ariel: Not Born but Made a Woman -- Flip the Script -- Silencing Women and a Mermaid -- You Don't Complete Me -- A Hope for the Future -- Notes -- Chapter 2 "True to Your Heart": Honor and Authenticity in Mulan -- "Honor to Us All" -- "Protect My People" -- "Mulan, You Dishonor Me" -- "What Do You Mean You're Not Lucky?" -- "Who is that Girl I See?" -- "Your Heart Knows" -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Zen and the Art of Imagineering: Disney's Escapism Versus Buddhism's Liberation -- When You Wish upon a Bodhi Tree -- Under the Sea or Part of your World? -- May the Cash Be with You -- Hakuna Matata, Bodhisattva -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Hidden Mickeys and the Hiddenness of God -- Emphatic Silence: the Experience of Divine Hiddenness -- The Argument from Divine Hiddenness -- When Is a Hidden Mickey a Hidden Mickey? -- The Disanalogy Between Hidden Mickeys and Divine Hiddenness -- Might God Be Hidden for Love's Sake? -- Notes -- Part II "I'll be Shooting for My Own Hand" -- Chapter 5 "Everyone's Special Dash": Tolerance and Conformity in a World of Incredible Differences -- "Join Us or Go Away!" -- Mill's Maxims -- "Cogs that Fit, that Cooperate by Design" -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Accommodating Dory, but Disempowering Dopey? Dilemmas of Disability from Snow White to Finding Dory -- Seven Dwarfs, a Mouse, and the Medical Model -- Disability as "Part of Your World"? -- "You Remembered in Your Own Amazing Dory Way!" -- Does Dopey's Disempowered Legacy Live On? -- What We Have Learned, or "Always Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide!" -- Notes -- Chapter 7 From Snow White to Moana: Understanding Disney's Feminist Transformation.

Someday my Prince Will Come -- Once upon a Dream -- Kiss the Girl -- Let It Go -- How Far I'll Go -- Notes -- Chapter 8 "Always a Team, Always United": Disney's Philosophy of the Family -- Acting IMPishly -- Locke's Liberty to Leave -- Pongo, Perdita, and Procreation -- Heaven's Light or Frollo's Song? -- "You Can't Grow Up Without a Decent Education, You Know" -- "Done Properly, Parenting is Heroic" -- Robots and Romance -- Notes -- Part III "Your Identity Is Your Most Valuable Possession" -- Chapter 9 How to Convince Sleeping Beauty She's Not Dreaming -- Maleficent, the Evil Genius -- Epistemology's Prince Charming -- The Flight of Phillip's Sword -- Visions Are Often all they Seem -- Happily Ever After -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Knowing Who you Are: Existence Precedes Essence in Moana -- "This Suits You" -- "But the Voice Inside Sings a Different Song" -- "That Voice Inside is Who You Are" -- "Do You Know Who You Are?" -- "I Am Moana!" -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Saving Mr. Banks: Reclaiming Our Childhood, Remembering Who We Are -- Unexamined is the Life I Lead -- The Man Who Forgot Who He Was -- "Please Return to the Nursery" -- Let's Go Fly a Kite! -- Notes -- Chapter 12 WALL·E and EVE: Disney's Intelligent Machines -- WALL·E : a Significantly Different Pixar Film -- Is WALL·E Artificially Intelligent? -- Analyzing "Artificial" -- Interpreting "Intelligence" -- Where Do We Go from Here? -- Notes -- Chapter 13 Inside Disney's Inside Out -- I Feel, Therefore I Am -- "Riley, Just Be Okay. Okay?" -- I Think, Therefore I Am? -- Inside the Lived Body -- Notes -- Part IV "You can Be Anyone You Want to Be" -- Chapter 14 To Be or Not to Be … the Lion King: Existentialism in Disney and Shakespeare -- The Courage to Be and to Become -- Hamlet's Circle of Death -- From Aesthetic to Ethical -- Rafiki Holds the Mirror Up to Nature -- Notes.

Chapter 15 True Freedom in Toy Story, or You Are a Child's Plaything! -- Stay Out of My Room! -- That's No Happy Child -- There's Been a Bit of a Mix‐Up: This Is My Spot -- Strange Things Are Happenin' -- Not Sid's Room! Not there… -- Who Am I … To Break Up the Roundup Gang? -- You Don't Know Who You Are, Do You? -- I'm Still Andy's Toy -- He Can't Hurt You No More -- First Thing You Gotta' Know About Me: I'm a Hugger -- He'll Be There For You, No Matter What -- Chapter 16 "Our Fate Lives Within Us": Character and Choice in Brave -- What Is a Queen? -- Become Who You Are -- Being Led -- On Being and Not Being Bears -- Changing Fate or Being Changed by Fate? -- Notes -- Chapter 17 Breaking the Spell: Beauty and the Beast and Plato's Prisoner -- The Enchanting Trap -- Freeing Plato's Prisoner -- "What If She's the One?" -- Beauty and Love's Pursuit -- Encountering Beauty -- Love Sets Things Free -- Happily Ever After? -- Notes -- Chapter 18 True Love in Frozen -- "Please, I Know You're in There": The Absence of the Other -- "Let It Go": The Psychology of True Love -- Love Is an Open Door: The Deception of the Typical Romance Narrative -- Stronger than One, Stronger than Ten: Defining an Act of True Love -- "For the First Time in Forever" -- We Can Fix this Hand in Hand -- Notes -- Part V "Always Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide" -- Chapter 19 Mencius Spins The Emperor's New Groove -- Kuzcotopia, Ox Mountain, and Family -- "Give‐Aways" and Thought‐Experiments -- Drama Llamas and Compassion Sprouts -- Kuzco's Two Journeys -- The Rhythm by Which We Live Our Lives -- Notes -- Chapter 20 "Handed Down from Goof to Goof": What Goofy Can Teach Us About Becoming Good -- The Art of Narration -- "Could You Back Up a Bit, Mr. Foot, Uh, You're Out of Focus" -- "There's Nothin' Can Upset Me Cause Now We're on Our Way. Our Trusty Map Will Guide Us Straight and True".

"You Know, It's Funny, But None of Your Techniques Worked for Me. The Harder I Tried the Worse it Got. Once I Eased Up, Things Just Clicked" -- "It's Been Handed Down from Goof to Goof to Goof, and Now, It's Yours, Son" -- Notes -- Chapter 21 "Let Slip the (Donald) Ducks of War!": Ethical Considerations About Disney's War Propaganda -- What Are the Disney Propaganda Films? -- What Is Propaganda? -- The Point of Propaganda -- Is Propaganda Permissible? -- Notes -- Chapter 22 WALL·E, the Environment, and Our Duties to Future Generations -- The Problem of Future Generations -- The Problem of Valuing Nature Like Persons -- Capitalist Greed Gets in the Way of Valuing Nature and Persons -- Intergenerational Ships and Sustainable Duties -- Notes -- Chapter 23 Is There Any Utopia in Zootopia? -- Man Is a Wolf to Man -- "You Can Only Be What You Are" -- "Deep Down, We're Animals" -- "Even Though You're a Fox?" -- Where Humans Did Happen -- "Real Life Is Messy" -- Notes -- Part VI The Wonderful Worldview of Disney -- Chapter 24 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Disney: Marx and Marcuse at Disney World -- Heigh‐ho, Heigh‐ho, It's Off to Work We Go -- Now Is the Best Time of Your Life! (Isn't It?) -- #EuphoricExhaustedBroke -- Escaping to the Disney Bubble -- But Everybody Needs a Laughin' Place -- Things Worth Believing -- Notes -- Chapter 25 Colonizing the Geography of the Imagination: Media, Mind, and the Magic Kingdom -- Johnny Depp Is Channeling Keith Richards as a Permanent Peter Pan Disguised as Captain Hook Doing a Pepe Le Pew -- We Have Found the Lemmings, and They Are Us -- Give Me That Old Time Mythology -- The Visual Containment of Metaphysical Values -- Hey Goofy! Somebody Just Slipped My Culture a Mickey… -- Notes -- Chapter 26 "We're All Gonna Die": Death and the Cycle of Life in Disney.

"Hey, I know a joke! A squirrel walks up to a tree and says, 'I forgot to store acorns for the winter and now I am dead.' Ha! It is funny because the squirrel gets dead." -Dug, in Up -- "If you weren't you, then we'd all be a bit less we" -Piglet, Winnie the Pooh -- "'Ohana means 'family.' 'Family' means 'no one gets left behind'" -Lilo, Lilo and Stitch -- "The time has come, gypsy. You stand upon the brink of the abyss" -Claude Frollo -- I think we've all arrived at a very special place, eh? Spiritually? Ecumenically? Grammatically? -Captain Jack Sparrow -- Notes -- Chapter 27 Liberty Square in the Shadow of Cinderella's Castle: Political Philosophy in Disney's Theme Parks -- "I Just Can't Wait to Be King": celebrating Equality and Hierarchy in the Magic Kingdom -- "I Can Show You the World": epcot as a Multicultural Experience -- "Look at This Stuff -- Isn't It Neat?": disney and the Commodification of Political Values -- Notes -- Index.

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