Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Approaching Disney 1.2 The Becoming of Disney 1.3 Research Questions 1.4 Methodology 1.5 Structure 1.6 Selection Chapter 2 The Inherited Racism 2.1 Racism and Whiteness 2.2 Semiotic Racism 2.2.1 Iconic Racism 2.2.2 Symbolic Racism 2.2.3 Indexical Racism 2.3 Science and Racism Chapter 3 Disney as a Sexist Workshop 3.1 Sexualization: a Motor of Power 3.2 Gender and Body 3.3 Gender and Clothes 3.4 Gendered Images in Disney Animated Films Chapter 4 Mythologized "Otherness" 4.1 Decoding Mythology 4.2 Reading Disney Films as Myths 4.2.1 Being "Other": Orientalism Cast 4.2.2 Looking at the "Other" 4.2.3 "Otherness" in the Orient 4.2.4 "Othemess" Expanded Chapter 5 The Appropriated History 5.1 The Problem of History 5.2 Situating America 5.3 Histories Appropriated 5.3.1 History and Me|odrama 5.3.2 Disney Pocahontas: Double Appropriation of History 5.3.3 Using Voice and Singing Dreams 5.3.4 Tour to London: Imperialist Whitewash Chapter 6 Otherizing Europa 6.1 The Myth of Being 6.2 American Ideology and Disney Studio 6.2.1 Politics and Ideology Constructed in Pocahontas 6.2.2 Religion and Ideology Constructed in The Hunchback of Notre Dame Conclusion Bibliography A Selected Filmography