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The walt Disney Company has reached great lengths in popular culture. Because of Disney's momentous role, a reflection and assessment on how their movies are viewed by, and influence, people around the globe was conducted in this book edition of the special issue of Social Sciences. This book is incredibly useful, pulling from authors in various fields such as education, communications, psychology, music, geography, human development, and children's literature, to provide well-informed analyses on the psychosocial implications of Disney movies.
The first two articles explore how Disney movies portray family dynamics and responses to challenging life events. Each article uses analysis of films from 1937 to 2018 to shed insight on children's ability to gain perspective of their own familial or challenging situations through parasocial relationships they form with the characters they viewed on screen. The results are as informative as they are delightful and interesting to read. Scholars in childhood psychology and human development will no doubt find useful information in these two articles, as would parents who have a difficult time explaining death or other familial dynamics to children.
The next two articles share an underlying theme of race, class, gender, and queerness. In the third article, author Katia Perea explores the use of otherness