Introduction: Exploring the Interconnections Between Disney Studies and Animal Studies
Kathy Merlock Jackson (Virginia Wesleyan University, USA), Kathy Shepherd Stolley(Virginia Wesleyan University, USA), and Mark I. West (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)

Part I: Animals in Disney's Early Life and Career
1. Walt Disney's Boyhood Adventures in a Marceline Menagerie: The Origin of Disney's Interest in Animals
Mark I. West
2. Animals and Meaning in Silly Symphonies
Paula T. Connolly (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
3. Giving Their All: Animals in Disney's World War II Propaganda Films
Curt Hersey (Berry College, USA)

Part II: Individual Disney Animated Feature Films and Franchises Dealing with Animals
4. Dinosaurs, Fantasia, and Walt Disney's Response to Evolution
Brian Alters (Chapman University, USA)
5. Lots of People with Big Ears are Famous: Dumbo and Circus Elephants in Disney Entertainment
Betsy Golden Kellem (Independent Scholar, USA)
6. Standing the Cheshire Cat on its Head: Disney's Transformation in Alice in Wonderland
Jan Susina (Illinois State University, USA)
7. Lady and the Tramp: When Dogs Say More About Humans Than Humans Say About Themselves
Christian Renaut (Disney Historian, France)
8. “Let's have fun with it”: Marceline, Missouri, Aesop's Animals and American Bricolage in Walt Disney's The Jungle Book
Sue Matheson (University College of the North, Canada)
9. Or Re-write History: Storks and DuckTales's Storkules
Nicholas D. Cross (United States Naval Academy, USA) and Nadia Cross (Independent Scholar, USA)
10. The Ethics of Hunting in Disney's Lion King Universe
Laura Kitchings (Boston University, USA)
11. The Shadow over Portorosso: The Use of Animals to Represent Lovecraftian Fear of the Other in Disney's Luca
Polina Ignatova (Linköping University, Sweden) and Emelie Fälton (Linköping University, Sweden)

Part III: Animals in Disney's Live-Action Films
12. Rehomed on the Range: Animals as Latinx in Disney's Live-Action Adventures
Stacy Hoult (Valparaiso University, USA)
13. “The Most Tenacious of All Sea Beasts”: The Narrative Persistence of the Giant Squid and Other Sea Monsters in Disney Films
Philip L. Simpson (Eastern Florida State College, USA)
14. Mythmaking, Transmogrification, and Narrative Design in Disney's The Shaggy Dog
James Plath (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)
15. Changing Depictions of Animals in Disney's Live-Action Films of the 1960s
Andrew Howe (La Sierra University, USA)

Part IV: Specific Animal Types Traversing Disney's Animated Realm
16. Rattled, Reformed, Derided, and Redeemed: The Freewheeling and Eclectic History of Disney's Rats and Mice
Terry Lindvall (Virginia Wesleyan University, USA)
17. Insects in the Disney Menagerie
Kathy Shepherd Stolley
18. To Spare or Kill: Characters' Behavior Toward Deer as Disney's Moral Test
Brennan Thomas (Saint Francis University, USA)
19. Disney's Trickster Foxes and Their Responses to Authority Structures
Peter Cullen Bryan (Independent Scholar, USA), Antares Russell Leask (Northern Virginia Community College, USA), and Dori Koehler (Southern New Hampshire University, USA)

Part V: Animals in Disney Theme Parks
20. Animal Representation in Disney's Theme Park Attractions
Carissa Baker (University of Central Florida, USA)
21. Imaginary Animals at Disney's Animal Kingdom
Andrew J. Friedenthal (Independent Scholar, USA)

Part VI: Thematic Approaches to Disney Animals
22. From Appropriation to Allyship: Representation of Cultural Values in Disney/Pixar's Animated Animals
Jacki Fitzpatrick (Texas Tech University, USA) and Rajib Ahmed Faisal (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)
23. Animal Welfare and Rights in Disney Animated Movies
Jesse Donahue (Saginaw Valley State University, USA)
24. Disney Adults and Their Dogs
Kathy Merlock Jackson


A Selective Bibliography of Disney's Menagerie
Camille McCutcheon (University of South Carolina, USA)

About the Contributors
Index