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Walt O’Disney and the Little People: Playing to the Irish-American Diaspora

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Walt O’Disney and the Little People: Playing to the Irish-American Diaspora. / O'Sullivan, Emer.
On Disney: Deconstructing Images, Tropes and Narratives. ed. / Ute Dettmar; Ingrid Tomkowiak. Berlin, Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler, 2022. p. 115-129 (Studien zu Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und -medien; Vol. 9).

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Harvard

O'Sullivan, E 2022, Walt O’Disney and the Little People: Playing to the Irish-American Diaspora. in U Dettmar & I Tomkowiak (eds), On Disney: Deconstructing Images, Tropes and Narratives. Studien zu Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und -medien, vol. 9, J.B. Metzler, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 115-129. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64625-0_8

APA

O'Sullivan, E. (2022). Walt O’Disney and the Little People: Playing to the Irish-American Diaspora. In U. Dettmar, & I. Tomkowiak (Eds.), On Disney: Deconstructing Images, Tropes and Narratives (pp. 115-129). (Studien zu Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und -medien; Vol. 9). J.B. Metzler. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64625-0_8

Vancouver

O'Sullivan E. Walt O’Disney and the Little People: Playing to the Irish-American Diaspora. In Dettmar U, Tomkowiak I, editors, On Disney: Deconstructing Images, Tropes and Narratives. Berlin, Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler. 2022. p. 115-129. (Studien zu Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und -medien). doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-64625-0_8

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