Introduction: Exploring the Interconnections Between Disney Studies and Animal Studies Kathy Merlock Jackson (Virginia Wesleyan University, USA), Kathy Shepherd Stolley(Virginia Wesleyan University, USA), and Mark I. West (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) Part I: Animals in Disney''s Early Life and Career 1. Walt Disney''s Boyhood Adventures in a Marceline Menagerie: The Origin of Disney''s Interest in Animals Mark I. West 2. Animals and Meaning in Silly Symphonies Paula T. Connolly (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) 3. Giving Their All: Animals in Disney''s World War II Propaganda Films Curt Hersey ( Berry College, USA) Part II: Individual Disney Animated Feature Films and Franchises Dealing with Animals 4. Dinosaurs, Fantasia , and Walt Disney''s Response to Evolution Brian Alters (Chapman University, USA) 5.

Lots of People with Big Ears are Famous: Dumbo and Circus Elephants in Disney Entertainment Betsy Golden Kellem (Independent Scholar, USA) 6. Standing the Cheshire Cat on its Head: Disney''s Transformation in Alice in Wonderland Jan Susina (Illinois State University, USA) 7. Lady and the Tramp : When Dogs Say More About Humans Than Humans Say About Themselves Christian Renaut (Disney Historian, France) 8. "Let''s have fun with it": Marceline, Missouri, Aesop''s Animals and American Bricolage in Walt Disney''s The Jungle Book Sue Matheson ( University College of the North, Canada) 9. Or Re-write History: Storks and DuckTales ''s Storkules Nicholas D. Cross (United States Naval Academy, USA) and Nadia Cross (Independent Scholar, USA) 10. The Ethics of Hunting in Disney''s Lion King Universe Laura Kitchings (Boston University, USA) 11. The Shadow over Portorosso: The Use of Animals to Represent Lovecraftian Fear of the Other in Disney''s Luca Polina Ignatova (Linköping University, Sweden) and Emelie Fälton (Linköping University, Sweden) Part III: Animals in Disney''s Live-Action Films 12.

Rehomed on the Range: Animals as Latinx in Disney''s Live-Action Adventures Stacy Hoult (Valparaiso University, USA) 13. "The Most Tenacious of All Sea Beasts": The Narrative Persistence of the Giant Squid and Other Sea Monsters in Disney Films Philip L. Simpson ( Eastern Florida State College, USA) 14. Mythmaking, Transmogrification, and Narrative Design in Disney''s The Shaggy Dog James Plath (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA) 15. Changing Depictions of Animals in Disney''s Live-Action Films of the 1960s Andrew Howe ( La Sierra University, USA) Part IV: Specific Animal Types Traversing Disney''s Animated Realm 16. Rattled, Reformed, Derided, and Redeemed: The Freewheeling and Eclectic History of Disney''s Rats and Mice Terry Lindvall (Virginia Wesleyan University, USA) 17. Insects in the Disney Menagerie Kathy Shepherd Stolley 18. To Spare or Kill: Characters'' Behavior Toward Deer as Disney''s Moral Test Brennan Thomas (Saint Francis University, USA) 19.

Disney''s Trickster Foxes and Their Responses to Authority Structures Peter Cullen Bryan (Independent Scholar, USA), Antares Russell Leask (Northern Virginia Community College, USA), and Dori Koehler (Southern New Hampshire University, USA) Part V: Animals in Disney Theme Parks 20. Animal Representation in Disney''s Theme Park Attractions Carissa Baker ( University of Central Florida, USA) 21. Imaginary Animals at Disney''s Animal Kingdom Andrew J. Friedenthal (Independent Scholar, USA) Part VI: Thematic Approaches to Disney Animals 22. From Appropriation to Allyship: Representation of Cultural Values in Disney/Pixar''s Animated Animals Jacki Fitzpatrick (Texas Tech University, USA) and Rajib Ahmed Faisal (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh) 23. Animal Welfare and Rights in Disney Animated Movies Jesse Donahue (Saginaw Valley State University, USA) 24. Disney Adults and Their Dogs Kathy Merlock Jackson A Selective Bibliography of Disney''s Menagerie Camille McCutcheon (University of South Carolina, USA) About the Contributors Index.