From Gags to Characters
Margaret Winkler, a New York distributor, had received the promotional letter Walt had sent out in May, 1923. She was having problems with two of the series she represented and was eager to find a new cartoon series with which to replace them. Without see
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Disney Stories Getting to Digital Second Edition
Disney Stories
Krystina Madej • Newton Lee
Disney Stories Getting to Digital 2nd ed. 2020 “An affectionate portrait of how ‘the mouse’ learned to use the mouse.” –Dr. Alan Kay
Krystina Madej School of Literature, Media and Communication Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA, USA
Newton Lee Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships Los Angeles, CA, USA Vincennes University Vincennes, IN, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-42737-5 ISBN 978-3-030-42738-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42738-2 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Dedicated to all the children and adults in the world who enjoy “the happiest place on earth” physically and digitally. Newton Lee Dedicated to Nicola, Michael, and Daniel Budd, my enthusiastic companions in many Disney story moments. Krystina Madej
About the Book
As I continued to use Disney Stories to bring Disney’s history of storytelling across media to university students, it became increasingly important to write a second edition. The original book had been intended as a brief introduction that showed how story and technology evolved hand-in-hand to make for audience-engaging entertainment. I’d written about Disney animations through the 1920s and 1930s until the first feature, Snow White, before moving on to the Disney Master Narrative, and then video games and online sites. The book leaped expediently from Snow White to Mickey’s Game and Watch; the class discussions, however, included films from the 1940s to the 1990s, the new approaches used for live action hybrid animation, and CGI and CAPS. I was intimately familiar with most of the Disn
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