On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Mike Frank <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>with reference to my comments on "correct" readings of disney's "b & b,"
 
>. . . my own cynical guess is that the bettleheim explanation works best . .
>. but wouldn't it be lovely if in fact disney has really missed the boat on
>the kind of politics these films actually articulate for their main audiences?
>
 
May I ask why you feel it would be "lovely" for the film not to act as a fairy
tale would, as a kind of emotional instruction manual to the art of growing up?
Is there another hegemony you would find preferable, and therefore support
subversive texts as a means to create a new order, and in turn a new set of
fairy tales?  Or do you just like subversion?
 
Jeff Apfel
 
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