Old Dominion University ODU Digital Commons History Theses & Dissertations History Spring 2020 "In-Betweening" Disney: An Animated History of Hollywood Labor and Ideological Imagineering, 1935-1947 Bradley Edward Moore Old Dominion University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/history_etds Part of the Labor History Commons, Social History Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Moore, Bradley E.. ""In-Betweening" Disney: An Animated History of Hollywood Labor and Ideological Imagineering, 1935-1947" (2020). Master of Arts (MA), Thesis, History, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/wdw1-yk94 https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/history_etds/42 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the History at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in History Theses & Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. “IN-BETWEENING” DISNEY: AN ANIMATED HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD LABOR AND IDEOLOGICAL IMAGINEERING, 1935-1947 by Bradley Edward Moore B.A. May 2017, Old Dominion University A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Old Dominion University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS HISTORY OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY May 2020 Approved by: John Weber, Director Elizabeth Zanoni, Member Brett Bebber, Member ABSTRACT “IN-BETWEENING” DISNEY: AN ANIMATED HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD LABOR AND IDEOLOGICAL IMAGINEERING, 1935-1947 Bradley Edward Moore Old Dominion University, 2020 Director: Dr. John Weber The Walt Disney Company’s meticulously-crafted corporate mythos, as it developed in the mid-twentieth century, hid a conflicted history of anti-New Deal, nationalist ideology that was popularized during the clashes of the Hollywood labor movement in the 1930s and 1940s.