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This study investigates the ways that theatre professionals brought significant changes to the Walt Disney Company, from 1984–1994, in a period affectionately referred to, in popular discourses, as the “Disney Renaissance.” These individuals, including Peter Schneider, Linda Woo…

The US Forest Service and Walt Disney Productions clashed with the Sierra Club over construction of a planned ski resort in California’s Mineral King Valley between 1965 and 1978. This thesis qualitatively analyzed over 120 newspaper articles to find how the Los Angeles Times an…

I believe the films from the Disney Renaissance period (1989–1999) drew heavily from the evolution and traditions of musical theater. Through the course of this thesis I examined several factors including the following: how these films were influenced by the history and traditio…

The Hero’s Journey is well-known amongst storytellers the world over as a useful structure to create compelling characters and engaging plots, though many see its use as derivative and uninspired. After its explosion in popularity in the 1970s, audiences have come to expect stor…

The paper will take a look at Disney with a focus on the evolution of the animated Disney princess stories through a feminist media lens and societal context. Using both Media theory and feminist theory, I'm exploring how female characters have evolved since the first incarnatio…

Film composers of the Modernist Era, by nature of their unique role occupying both a commercial and an aesthetic space, served two masters of necessity: the narrative needs of their client’s or studio’s film production, and their own need to create artistically satisfying music.…