2 Ibid., 419.

3 Susan L. Aronstein & Laurie A. Finke, “Discipline and Pleasure: The Pedagogical Work of Disneyland,” Educational Philosophy and Theory 45, no. 6 (2013): 619-620.

4 Nicholas Sammond, “The Textual Object 2,” http://www.flowjournal.org/2016/02/textual-object-2/. Retrieved April 20, 2016.

5 This approach seems to me more beneficial than a broad survey of westerns generally, as this paper is not seeking to establish the differences or similarities between texts generally, but is rather seeking to demonstrate the relative incoherence of the narratives and ideological messages of the Disneyland Frontierland rides in relation to the types of film the park is sourced from, both broadly through westerns, and specifically through Disney’s own The Light in the Forest.

6 Michael Hilger, From Savage to Nobleman (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1995): 111, 124-125.

7 Ibid., 108.

8 Scott Eyman, Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999): 449. qtd. in Armando José Prats, Invisible Natives: Myth & Identity in the American Western (New York: Cornell University Press, 2002): 278.

9 Armando José Prats, Invisible Natives: Myth & Identity in the American Western (New York: Cornell University Press, 2002): 279.

10 Donald Hoffman, “Whose Home on the Range? Finding Room for Native Americans, African Americans, and Latino Americans in the Revisionist Western,” MELUS 22, no. 2 (1997): 46.

11 Peter Lehman, “Texas 1868 / America 1956: The Searchers,” in Close Viewings: An Anthology of New Film Criticism, ed. Peter Lehman (Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1990): 403. qtd. in Armando José Prats, Invisible Natives: Myth & Identity in the American Western (New York: Cornell University Press, 2002): 59.

12 Armando José Prats, Invisible Natives: Myth & Identity in the American Western (New York: Cornell University Press, 2002): 283.

13 Arthur Redding, “Frontier Mythographies: Savagery and Civilization in Frederick Jackson Turner and John Ford,” Literature/Film Quarterly 35, no. 4 (2007): 315.

14 Ibid., 317.

15 Ibid., 316.

16 Mary Lea Bandy, Ride, Boldly Ride (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012), 197.

17 J. G. O’Boyle, “‘Be Sure You’re Right, Then Go Ahead:’ The Early Disney Westerns,” Journal of Popular Film & Television 24, no. 2 (1996): 76.

18 Ibid., 78.

19 Michael Hilger, From Savage to Nobleman (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1995): 64, 98.

20 Jeffery Dennis, “The Light in the Forest is Love: Cold War Masulinity and the Disney Adventure Boys” The Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900 to Present 3, no. 1 (2004): 5.

21 Ibid., 6.

22 Bruce Buchan, “The Empire of Political Thought: Civilization, Savagery and Perceptions of Indigenous Government,” History of the Human Sciences 18, no. 2 (2005): 3.

23 Ibid., 4-5.

24 Jeffery Dennis, “The Light in the Forest is Love: Cold War Masculinity and the Disney Adventure Boys” The Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900 to Present 3, no. 1 (2004): 3.

25 Ibid., 5-6.

26 Susan L. Aronstein & Laurie A. Finke, “Discipline and Pleasure: The Pedagogical Work of Disneyland,” Educational Philosophy and Theory 45, no. 6 (2013): 613.

27 Richard Francaviglia, “Walt Disney’s Frontierland as an Allegorical Map of the American West,” Western Historical Quarterly 30, no. 2 (1999): 163.

28 Susan L. Aronstein & Laurie A. Finke, “Discipline and Pleasure: The Pedagogical Work of Disneyland,” Educational Philosophy and Theory 45, no. 6 (2013): 620.

29 Richard Francaviglia, “Walt Disney’s Frontierland As an Allegorical Map of the American West,” Western Historical Quarterly 30, no. 2 (1999): 175.

30 Ibid., 175, 176.

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