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Examines the place of Disney in the changing construction of childhood in mid-twentieth-century America

Babes in Tomorrowland

Acknowledgments ix



Introduction: The Child 1



1. Disney Makes Disney 25



2. Making a Manageable Child 81



3. In Middletown 135



4. America's True-Life Adventure 195



5. Raising the Natural Child 247



6. Disney Maps the Frontier 300



Conclusion: The Child as Victim of Commodities 357



Notes 387



References 427



Filmography 453



Index 455