Disney father figures, such as Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio and Baloo from The Jungle Book, exemplify men who often shape the social dynamics and plot of the films, guiding viewers toward a happy ...

Disney has just released the song “The Power of Two” from “The Acoytle,” they want you to buy it for your Dad for Father’s Day. The irony is just too great for me not to cover this.

However, the freer fatherhood of the 1960s did not achieve the same foothold in storytelling, as newer Disney films have drawn from the wartime guiding father ideal and the postwar role of the ...