Escape from Wonderland: Disney and the Female Imagination

The main points of this paper are:

There are conservative elements in Disney's 1951 Alice movie.

Carroll's books show that adventure can be positive in the long run.

The visuals are 'staid and restrained.'

Carroll celebrates childhood as a brief, fleeting time.

Both the movie and the book show the desire to escape boredom at the beginning.

At one point Alice sits down to be rescued.

The strength of the line that they are all a pack of cards is undercut by her running away from them.

Carroll's book is tolerant of anarchy in the sense of irrationality.

(A lot of the article deals with The Little Mermaid.)

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