Sources for the Study of Religion and Disney



Anderson, Paul F. “The Final Vision.” In Walt Disney: An Intimate History of the Man and His Magic CD-ROM. Santa Monica: Pantheon Productions, 1998.


Anderson, Philip Longfellow.   The Gospel in Disney: Christian Values in the Early Animated Classics. Minneapolis: Augsberg Books, 2004.


Beard, Richard R. Walt Disney's EPCOT Center: Creating the New World of Tomorrow . New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982.


Bell, Catherine. Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions . New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.


Bell, Elizabeth, Lynda Haas, and Laura Sells, eds.   From Mouse to Mermaid: the Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture.   Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.


Blake, Peter. “Walt Disney World.” The Architectural Forum 136 (June 1972): 24-41.


Borrelli, Marc. “Land of the Rising Mickey.” LaughingPlace.com, 2 April 2001. < http://laughingplace.com/News-PID110045-110045.asp > (31 March 2007).


Brennan, Mary Yoko. “'Bwana Mickey': Constructing Cultural Consumption at Tokyo Disneyland.” In Cultures of United States Imperialism, edited by Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.


Bright, Randy. Disneyland: Inside Story. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987.


Brode, Douglas. Multiculturalism and the Mouse: Race and Sex in Disney Entertainment. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.


_____. From Walt to Woodstock: How Disney Created the Counterculture. Austin: University of Texas, 2004.


Broggie, Michael. Walt Disney's Railroad Story. Pasadena: Pentrex, 1997.


Byrne, Eleanor, and Martin McQuillan   Deconstructing Disney. London: Pluto Press, 1999.


Carson, Cary. “Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Whose History Is the Fairest of Them All?” The Public Historian 17:4 (1995): 61-67.


Clegg, Stewart R. Frameworks of Power . London: Sage Publications, 1989.


Crowley, John. The World of Tomorrow , dirs. Lance Bird and Tom Johnson. New York: Media Study, 1986.


Dunlop, Beth. Building a Dream: The Art of Disney Architecture . New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996.


Edgerton, Gary and Kathy Merlock Jackson.   “Redesigning Pocahontas,” Journal of Popular Film and Television 24 (1996)


Eliot, Marc.   Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince.   Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Publishing Group, 1993.


EPCOT Center: A Pictorial Souvenir. Walt Disney Productions, 1982.


Euro Disney. Paris: Connaissance des Arts, 1992.


Fadner, Donald E.   “Disney gets Religion.”   Paper presented at the American Academy of Religion meeting in Orlando, November 1998.


Field, Rachel.   Ave Maria: An Interpretation from Walt Disney's Fantasia .   New York: Random House, 1940.


Ferraiuolo, Perucci.   Disney and the Bible: A Scriptural Critique of the Magic Kingdom.   Camp Hill, Pa: Horizon Books, 1996.


Fjellman, Stephen M. Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America . Boulder: Westview Press, 1992.


Flanagan, Kieran. “Review of Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, by Catherine Bell. Sociology 26:4 (1992): 744-745.


Forbes, Bruce David.   “And a Mouse Shall Lead Them: An Essay on the Disney Phenomenon as Religion.”   Paper delivered at a Disney conference at Florida Atlantic University, 2000.


Francaviglia, Richard V. “Main Street U.S.A.: A Comparison/Contrast of Streetscapes In Disneyland and Walt Disney World.” Journal of Popular Culture (Summer 1981): 141-156.


________. “Walt Disney's Frontierland as an Allegorical Map of the American West.” Western Historical Quarterly 30 (1999): 155-182.


Ghez, Didier. Disneyland Paris: From Sketch to Reality. Paris: Nouveau MillŽnaire Editions, 2002.


Giroux, Henry A.   The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence.   New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.


Goldberger, Paul. “Mickey Mouse Teaches the Architects.” New York Times Magazine, 22 October 1972, 40-41, 92-99.


Gordon, Bruce and David Mumford. Disneyland: The Nickel Tour . Santa Clarita: Camphor Tree, 2000.


Gottdiener, M. “Disneyland: A Utopian Urban Space.” Urban Life 11:2 (1982), 139-162.


Graham, Susan Lochrie.   “Some Day My Prince Will Come: Images of Salvation in the Gospel according to St. Walt.”. in Culture, Entertainment and the Bible .   Ed.   George Aichele.   Shefield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000,   76-88.


Halevy, Julian. “Disneyland and Las Vegas.” The Nation , 7 June 1958, 510-513.


Harris, Neil. “Expository Expositions: Preparing for the Theme Parks.” In Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance , edited by Karal Ann Marling, 19-27. New York: Flammarion, 1997.


Hiaasen, Carl. Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World. New York: Random House, 1998.


Hughes, Robert. “Disney: From Mousebrow to Highbrow.” Time , 15 October 1973, 88­-91.


The Imagineers. Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look at Making the Magic Real . New York: Hyperion, 1996.


Juschka, Darlene.   “The Wonderful Worlds of Disney and Fundamentalism.”   Paper presented at the American Academy of Religion meeting in Orlando, November 1998.


_____.   “Disney and Fundamentalism: The Fetishisation of the Family and the Production of American Family Values .”   Culture and Religion 2 (1) 2001, 21-39.


King, Margaret J. “Disneyland and Walt Disney World: Traditional Values in Futuristic Form.” Journal of Popular Film and Television (Summer 1981): 116-140.


Kuenz, Jane. “It's a Small World After All: Disney and the Pleasures of Identification.” South Atlantic Quarterly 92:1 (1993): 63-88.


Kurtti, Jeff. Since the World Began: Walt Disney World The First 25 Years. New York: Hyperion, 1996.


Marling, Karal Ann. “Disneyland, 1955: Just Take the Santa Ana Freeway to the American Dream.” American Art 5:1-2 (1991):169-207.


________. “Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks.” In Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance , edited by Karal Ann Marling, 29­- 177. New York: Flammarion, 1997.


Mazur, Eric Michael and Tara K. Koda, “The Happiest Place on Earth: Disney's America and the Commodification of Religion.” In God is in the Details, edited by Eric Michael Mazur and Kate McCarthy, 299-315. New York: Routledge, 2001.


Moore, Alexander. “Walt Disney World: Bounded Ritual Space and the Playful Pilgrimage Center.” Anthropological Quarterly 53 (1980): 207-218.


Nelson, Steve. “Reel Life Performance: The Disney-MGM Studios.” Drama Review 34 (1990): 60-78.


________. “Walt Disney's EPCOT and the World's Fair Performance Tradition,” Drama Review 30 (1986): 106-146.


Newcomb, Chris.   Crossing the Berm:   The Disney Theme Park as Sacralized Space.   Ph.d. Dissertation, Department of Religion, Florida State University, 2003.


O'Day, Tim. Disneyland: Celebrating 45 Years of Magic. Disney Editions, 2000.


Pinsky, Mark I.   The Gospel According to Disney: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust.   Louisville/London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004.


Real, Michael R.   “The Disney Universe: Morality Play.”   In Mass-Mediated Culture. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1977.


Riley, Debra and Christopher Parr. “Disneyland: ‘Religious Reveling in Real America'.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, 1989.


Sanes, Ken. “ Disney's Distorted Mirror.” < http://www.transparencynow.com/Disney/kingdom.htm > (31 March, 2007).


Schickel, Richard. The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967.


Sklar, Marty. Disneyland . Walt Disney Productions, 1969.


The Story of Walt Disney World. Walt Disney Productions, 1976.


Synnott, Marcia G. “Disney's America: Whose Patrimony, Whose Profits, Whose Past?” The Public Historian 17:4 (1995): 43-59.


Tuan, Yi-Fu with Steven D. Hoelscher. “Disneyland—Its Place in World Culture.” In Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance , edited by Karal Ann Marling, 191-198. New York: Flammarion, 1997.


Wallace, Michael. “Mickey Mouse History: Portraying the Past at Disney World.” In History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment, edited by Warren Leon and Roy Rosenzweig, 158-180. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.


Wallace, Michael. “Serious Fun.” The Public Historian 17:4 (1995): 83-89.


Walt Disney: Famous Quotes, ed. Dave Smith. The Walt Disney Company, 1994.


Walt Disney World Resort. Disney's Kingdom Editions.


Ward, Annalee R.   Mouse Morality: the Rhetoric of Disney Animated Film .   Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.


Watts, Steven. The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.


Weinstein, Raymond M. “Disneyland and Coney Island: Reflections on the Evolution of the Modern Amusement Park.” Journal of Popular Culture 26 (Summer 1992): 131-164.


Willis, Susan. “Public Use/Private Space.” In Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World, edited by The Project on Disney: 180-198. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.


Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro. “Images of Empire: Tokyo Disneyland and Japanese Cultural Imperialism.” In Disney Discourse: Producing the Magic Kingdom , edited by Eric Smoodin: 181-199. New York: Routledge, 1994.