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Podcast: School of Movies
Episode: Pocahontas
Description: [School of Movies 2018]
The Disney shows return, Daniel Floyd of Extra Credits joins us once again to continue our trek through the past of the animation giant.
And we are in the middle of the 90s renaissance, their third period of creatively blossoming (Pre-War/Post-War/90s) and the first after the box office high point of The Lion King presented a bar almost impossible to reach. Even if it hadn't been culturally troubling, deliberately historically naive and melodramatic when the audiences wanted fun, Pocahontas was going to stumble.
It became the benchmark of...