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Book The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation

Download or read book The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation written by David Whitley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second edition of The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation, David Whitley updates his 2008 book to reflect recent developments in Disney and Disney-Pixar animation such as the apocalyptic tale of earth's failed ecosystem, WALL-E. As Whitley has shown, and Disney's newest films continue to demonstrate, the messages animated films convey about the natural world are of crucial importance to their child viewers. Beginning with Snow White, Whitley examines a wide range of Disney's feature animations, in which images of wild nature are central to the narrative. He challenges the notion that the sentimentality of the Disney aesthetic, an oft-criticized aspect of such films as Bambi, The Jungle Book, Pocahontas, Beauty and the Beast, and Finding Nemo, necessarily prevents audiences from developing a critical awareness of contested environmental issues. On the contrary, even as the films communicate the central ideologies of the times in which they were produced, they also express the ambiguities and tensions that underlie these dominant values. In distinguishing among the effects produced by each film and revealing the diverse ways in which images of nature are mediated, Whitley urges us towards a more complex interpretation of the classic Disney canon and makes an important contribution to our understanding of the role popular art plays in shaping the emotions and ideas that are central to contemporary experience.

Book The Beauty of Nature

Download or read book The Beauty of Nature written by Andrea Posner-Sanchez and published by RH/Disney. This book was released on 2011 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belle, Ariel, and Tiana show readers ways to help save the environment by recycling and being nice to animals.

Book Wonderful World of Nature

Download or read book Wonderful World of Nature written by Disney Book Group and published by Disney Press. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wonderful World of Nature, stunning photographs and favorite Disney characters guide young readers around the globe to discover the wonders of the natural world. From the hottest desert to the highest mountain peak, from the largest living forest to the deepest ocean floor, this comprehensive reference book will show kids a side of nature never seen before!

Book The Culture of Nature

Download or read book The Culture of Nature written by Alexander Wilson and published by Between The Lines. This book was released on 1991 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this celebrated work, Alexander Wilson examines environments built over the past fifty years, as humans have continued to discover, exploit, protect, restore, and sometimes re-enchant a natural world in convulsion. Extensively illustrated.

Book Spirits of Nature

    Book Details:
  • Author : Natasha Bouchard
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-10-04
  • ISBN : 9781536459715
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book Spirits of Nature written by Natasha Bouchard and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Disney Frozen 2.

Book True Life Adventures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christian Moran
  • Publisher : Theme Park Press
  • Release : 2017-07
  • ISBN : 9781683900726
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book True Life Adventures written by Christian Moran and published by Theme Park Press. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Natural World of Disney. Walt Disney used to say "it all started with a mouse", but really, it all started with a farm, the one in Marceline, Missouri, where Walt grew up and where his love of the land, and all things upon it, first took form.

Book Disney Nature  African Cats

Download or read book Disney Nature African Cats written by Amanda Barrett and published by Disney Editions. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of Africa, the Masai Mara Game Reserve is a place where, in place of justice and fairness, raw power rules the day, and to survive means to fight. Lions, cheetahs, elephants, giraffes, buffalo, gazelles, and other large mammals roam the vast, rolling plains of the reserve, and with so many species competing for space and food, the stakes are high, and danger looms at every turn./DIV In African Cats: Kingdom of Courage, filmmakers Keith Scholey and Amanda Barrett follow the lives of some of the Masai Mara’s big cats, focusing on two lionesses and a cheetah and her adorable cubs. This companion book to their incredible film offers a fascinating exploration of the unique, yet interwoven, stories of each cat. Filled with stunning photographs of the Kenyan plains and the remarkable animals that reside on them, this book will take you on an unforgettable journey chronicling the struggle to survive.DIV

Book The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation

Download or read book The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation written by David S. Whitley and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Whitley's compelling study complicates our understanding of the classic Disney canon by focusing on the way images of the natural world are mediated within popular art for children. He examines a range of Disney's feature animations, from Snow White to Finding Nemo, to show that, even as the films communicate the central ideologies of their times, they also express the ambiguities and tensions that underlie these dominant values.

Book African Cats  Sita the Cheetah

Download or read book African Cats Sita the Cheetah written by Disney Books and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read along with Disney! This early reader is inspired by the story of the cheetahs from the Disneynature film. Kids will love the beautiful pictures of a mother cheetah and her cubs, taken as the filmmakers follow their journey. With simple text and full-color images, this reader is perfect for newly independent readers.

Book Disney Frozen 2  Elements of Nature

Download or read book Disney Frozen 2 Elements of Nature written by Suzanne Francis and published by Studio Fun International. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Elsa, Anna, and all their friends for a day of play in the Enchanted Forest in this hardcover storybook with snow globe included! The fun never stops in the Enchanted Forest! Join Elsa, Anna, Olaf, and the spirits of nature as they reunite for a day of fun and games. And then bring the story to life with the magical leaf globe! Put an image of Olaf in the globe and shake it up to see the leaves swirl around him. With 14 images to put into the globe, this book is sure to provide hours of non-stop fun!

Book Nature Disney

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Bal
  • Publisher : Hachette Heroes
  • Release : 2023-05-31
  • ISBN : 9782376715436
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Nature Disney written by William Bal and published by Hachette Heroes. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Birds of North America  2nd Edition

Download or read book National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Birds of North America 2nd Edition written by Jonathan Alderfer and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't have to be an experienced birder to enjoy this guide! With hundreds of illustrations and a user-friendly format, you'll soon be spotting and identifying birds in your locale in no time. The updated text highlights the latest trends in birding and the most up-to-date ornithological information. -- adapted from back cover

Book Reel Nature

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gregg Mitman
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780674715714
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Reel Nature written by Gregg Mitman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have had a long-standing love affair with the wilderness. As cities grew and frontiers disappeared, film emerged to feed an insatiable curiosity about wildlife. The camera promised to bring us into contact with the animal world, undetected and unarmed. Yet the camera's penetration of this world has inevitably brought human artifice and technology into the picture as well. In the first major analysis of American nature films in the twentieth century, Gregg Mitman shows how our cultural values, scientific needs, and new technologies produced the images that have shaped our contemporary view of wildlife. Like the museum and the zoo, the nature film sought to recreate the experience of unspoiled nature while appealing to a popular audience, through a blend of scientific research and commercial promotion, education and entertainment, authenticity and artifice. Travelogue-expedition films, like Teddy Roosevelt's African safari, catered to upper- and middle-class patrons who were intrigued by the exotic and entertained by the thrill of big-game hunting and collecting. The proliferation of nature movies and television shows in the 1950s, such as Disney's True-Life Adventures and Marlin Perkins's Wild Kingdom, made nature familiar and accessible to America's baby-boom generation, fostering the environmental activism of the latter part of the twentieth century. Reel Nature reveals the shifting conventions of nature films and their enormous impact on our perceptions of, and politics about, the environment. Whether crafted to elicit thrills or to educate audiences about the real-life drama of threatened wildlife, nature films then and now reveal much about the yearnings of Americans to be both close to nature and yet distinctly apart.

Book Jacques Perrin Presents Oceans

Download or read book Jacques Perrin Presents Oceans written by François Sarano and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a comprehensive guide to the world's oceans, focusing on various forms of sea life around the world and the threats they face from pollution and global warming, as well as a behind-the-scenes glimpse of practical film-making under demanding and difficult conditions.

Book Team Rodent

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carl Hiaasen
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Release : 2010-09-29
  • ISBN : 0307764885
  • Pages : 97 pages

Download or read book Team Rodent written by Carl Hiaasen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Disney is so good at being good that it manifests an evil; so uniformly efficient and courteous, so dependably clean and conscientious, so unfailingly entertaining that it's unreal, and therefore is an agent of pure wickedness. . . . Disney isn't in the business of exploiting Nature so much as striving to improve upon it, constantly fine-tuning God's work." --from TEAM RODENT TEAM RODENT How Disney Devours America "Revulsion is good. Revulsion is healthy. Each of us has limits, unarticulated boundaries of taste and tolerance, and sometimes we forget where they are. Peep Land is here to remind us; a fixed compass point by which we can govern our private behavior. Because being grossed out is essential to the human experience; without a perceived depravity, we'd have nothing against which to gauge the advance or decline of culture; our art, our music, our cinema, our books. Without sleaze, the yardstick shrinks at both ends. Team Rodent doesn't believe in sleaze, however, nor in old-fashioned revulsion. Square in the middle is where it wants us all to be, dependable consumers with predictable attitudes. The message, never stated but avuncularly implied, is that America's values ought to reflect those of the Walt Disney Company, and not the other way around." BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Carl Hiaasen's Bad Monkey.

Book Chasing Helicity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ginger Zee
  • Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
  • Release : 2018-04-24
  • ISBN : 1368020305
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Chasing Helicity written by Ginger Zee and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helicity is well aware that her name is unusual - kind of like Helicity herself. The word Helicity means to spin, and for as long as she can remember, Helicity has been fascinated by the weather. The weather is Helicity's escape from her own reality - may that be school, her father's strict discipline, or her brother's imminent departure for college where he's all set to play football. One fateful day, Helicity and her horse head out on a long ride to take a break from life at home. Even with her vast experience with weather, Helicity is unprepared for the elements she faces. The choices Helicity makes before, during, and after that storm will have a lasting effect on her family and her future.

Book Delicious Disney  Walt Disney World

Download or read book Delicious Disney Walt Disney World written by Pam Brandon and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt Disney World honors its fiftieth anniversary with "The World's Most Magical Celebration," an incredible 18-month event that begins October 1, 2021. As part of the festivities, Delicious Disney: Walt Disney World is a holistic look at the Florida resort's culinary past, present, and future—all organically woven around diverse recipes from the Disney Chefs and fit for home chefs of varying skill levels. After the success of Disneyland, Walt Disney wanted to build something more elaborate and with more room. Ultimately, it was Walt's brother and business partner, Roy O. Disney, who brought forth his sibling's dream—and made it a reality—when the Magic Kingdom opened in 1971. More than fifty years later, we still celebrate Walt's dream, Roy's vision and commitment, plus the dedication of those who serve up a world of magic. And all of it is deliciously Disney. Filled with a heartfelt narrative and behind-the-scenes anecdotes, mouth-watering food photos, gorgeous Walt Disney Imagineering concept artwork, nostalgic restaurant menus and ephemera, and a little Disney magic, this cookbook-meets-culinary-history coffee table book enchants with more than sixty recipes. Including an assortment of appetizers, main courses, sides, desserts, and even joyful libations, these dishes come from fine-dining and quick-service establishments across the resort. Each has been tested by home chefs to help you bring your cherished vacation memories to life . . . and inspire new ones for years to come. Here's just a sampling of what awaits inside: BREAKFAST LASAGNA FROZEN PINEAPPLE TREAT INSPIRED BY DOLE WHIP® HANDWICH 3.0 IMPOSSIBLETM MEATLOAF TONGA TOAST CANADIAN CHEDDAR CHEESE SOUP GOBI MANCHURIAN BATUUAN RONTO WRAP ORANGE BIRD FLIP