Davis (2014) Handsome heroes and vile villains

Covers the depictions of human male protagonists and antagonists in Disney’s animated feature films from 1937 to 2012. A fairly large number of films are each examined in detail, with three chapters on the protagonists (covering heroes in childhood or adolescence, non-aristocratic adults, and royals) and one on the villains. This book will be useful if you are interested in presentations of masculinity and how these have changed over the course of the C2Oth and early C21st, although the book tends not to focus on in-depth linguistic analysis.

Davis, A. M. (2014). Handsome heroes and vile villains: Men in Disney’s feature animation. John Libbey & Company, Limited.