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Disney on the Frontlines In a collection of essays, From Mouse to Mermaid, the editors Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas and Laura Sells suggest that "legal institutions, film theorists, cultural critics, and loyal audiences all guard the borders of Disney film as "off limits" to the critical enterprise, constructing Disney as metonym for "America" – clean, decent, industrious, "the happiest place on earth"" (3). Yet, how does this ‘happiest place on earth’ deal with the themes of war and strife that likewise inform America’s international character? In our knowledge of Disney fictions, we rarely think of war, but in an era where America remains the last superpower and has taken on international responsibility for peacekeeping, Disney features like Pocahontas and Mulan have tackled those very themes and if we are to be consistent with the idea of Disney as metonym for America, the way in which Disney tackles these themes has significance.
In World War II Disney became a propaganda c...