Wednesday, September 20, 2023 From 6:30 PM To 8:00 PM Add to Calendar 2023-09-20 18:30:00 2023-09-20 20:00:00 Disney's French Fairy Tales: discover how Walt Disney got inspired by French literature and art Join us to learn how Disney storytellers researched and restyled high art from the French Middle Ages, Renaissance, and eighteenth century. From courtly love poetry to Rococo porcelain, from illuminated manuscripts to palatial architecture, French literature and art is pervasive in Disney filmmaking. The French Library, 53 Marlborough St, Boston, Massachusetts, United States America/New_York
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About Shannon McHugh
Shannon McHugh is Associate Professor of French and Italian at UMass Boston. She is the author of Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy (2023). Her research on Renaissance literature—which focuses on topics including gender and the history of fan culture—has taken her to places ranging from the Vatican Secret Archives to the Walt Disney Imagineering Library.
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