“Dreams do come true in New Orleans”: American fairy tales, Post-Katrina New Orleans, and Disney’s The Princess and the Frog (2009)
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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2010vol20no2art1144Keywords:
Disney, racism, The Princess and the Frog, New Orleans, American fairy talesAbstract
The review and analysis of the film 'The Princess and the Frog' by Walt Disney is discussed. Then film shows the sentimentalized and romanticized depiction of New Orleans and its surroundings, and seems to suggest that dreams come true in New Orleans.
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