Animating Space: Disney, Science, and Empowerment.

One of the pleasures of animation, it has been argued, is that it affords viewers a sense of power over the everyday, thanks to its ability to bring into being a world unrestrained by the conventions of realism or of probability. This principle is one that Walt Disney not only well understood, but a...

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Publicado en:Science Fiction Studies Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 48 - 60
Autor principal: Telotte, J. P.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of California Press Mar2008
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