Sleeping Beauty Before Disney: Basile, Perrault, Grimm, Tchaikovsky, and the Story Every Era Rearranged
A deep guide to Sleeping Beauty before and after Disney, covering Basile’s Sun, Moon, and Talia, Perrault, Grimm, the Petipa and Tchaikovsky ballet, the 1959 animated film, Maleficent, consent, motherhood, and how each era rewrote the waking.
Qi Is Not Mulan’s Superpower Battery: What Chi Means Beyond Disney
A deep guide to qi as breath, material force, cultivation, body, and world, and why Mulan (2020) shrank that cultural field into a gender-policed combat gift.
The Ballad of Mulan: What the Poem Says and Disney Changed
The Mulan poem before the princess: its northern political world, family duty, gender disguise, uncertain history, long adaptation life, and what Disney changed.
Beauty and the Beast Adaptation Guide: From Villeneuve to Disney and Beyond
A deep map of Beauty and the Beast from Villeneuve and Beaumont through Cocteau, Disney animation, Broadway, French cinema, and live action.