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Ontologies of Children’s Media and Literature

Moana 2
Heavily referential of its 2016 predecessor, this sequel folds its eponymous hero’s adventures into a reimagined Pacific mythology and expanding Disney…
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Dion Georgiou
Duck and the Diesel Engine (1958)
The rivalry between the two characters at the heart of this book encapsulated the contest between competing versions of the British railway system’s…
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Dion Georgiou
The Three Railway Engines (1945)
The first book in the Reverend Awdry’s Railway Series sketched out a world of living engines, existing in relation to humans and rolling stock, governed…
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Dion Georgiou
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
This film retells the story of the making of Mary Poppins, and reflects upon the autobiographical aspects of storytelling, and the subsequent conflicts…
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Dion Georgiou
The Boy and the Heron
This wonderfully strange animated film is rich with symbolism about violence, hierarchy, and fate.
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Dion Georgiou
Troublesome Engines (1950)
The Rev. W. Awdry’s Troublesome Engines centred on a Christianised notion of moral economy, in which industrial action was pitted against unitary…
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Dion Georgiou
Wish
Disney’s latest film draws heavily on the studio’s history in its vision of a multiracial society and condemnation of demagoguery.
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Dion Georgiou
Trolls World Tour (2020)
The depiction of tribes warring over musical tastes in Trolls World Tour serves as an allegory for how even the best intentioned ideologies turn sour…
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Dion Georgiou
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