Here is an assortment of questions, essays, guides, links, and even a short story that will hopefully enlighten and inspire, or at least help you along the way.
Books
Bell, Elizabeth, Lynda Hass, and Laura Sells, editors. From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Douglas, Susan J. Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media. New York: Crown, 1994.
Merritt, Russell and J. B. Kaufman. Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Schickel, Richard. The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney. Chicago: Ivan R Dee, 1968, 1985, 1997.
Thomas, Frank, and Ollie Johnston. Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life. Disney Editions, 1981.
Warner, Marina. From Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. London: Chatto & Windus, 1994.
Watts, Stephen. The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1998.
Yolen, Jane. Touch Magic. Little Rock: August House, 2000.
Zipes, Jack. Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children and the Cultural Industry. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Articles
Cummins, June. "Romancing the Plot: The Real beast of Disney's Beauty and the Beast.” Children's Literature Association Quarterly. (Spring 1995): 22-28.
McCallum, Robyn, and John Stephens. "Film and Fairy Tales." The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Jack Zipes, editor. Oxford: Oxford University, 2000.
O'Brien, Pamela Colby. "The happiest films on earth: a textual and contextual analysis of Walt Disney's 'Cinderella' and 'The Little Mermaid." Women's Studies in Communication. vol. 19.2 (Summer 1996): 155-.
Panttaja, Elizabeth. "Going up in the world: class in "Cinderella." (Perspectives on the Innocent Persecuted Heroine in Fairy Tales)." Western Folklore. vol. 52.1 (Jan 1993): 85-.
Wood, Naomi J. "Walt Disney." The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Jack Zipes, editor. Oxford: Oxford University, 2000.
Yolen, Jane. "America's Cinderella." Cinderella: A Casebook. Alan Dundes, editor. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1982.
Zipes, Jack. “Breaking the Disney Spell.” Fairy Tale as Myth: Myth as Fairy Tale. Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1994.
Discussion Board Archives
October 2000: Disney and Fairy Tales--Helping Natasha
December 2001: Dark to Light- tale variants...
December 2001: Disney - influences
December 2001: False sense of reality
May 2002: Disneyfication of classic fairytales
February 2003: Disney Movies vs. Original Fairy Tales
March 2003: Shrek and fairytales-paroding Disney and fairytales
October 2003: Research on Disney's Snow White
November 2003: In defense of Disney movies
December 2003: Need help for paper on Disney please
July 2004: Disney movies vs Fairy Tales
November 2004: Racism and Sexism in Disney :x
March 2005: The representation of women in disney: heroines or victims?
April 2005: Disneyfication / Who killed the seven dwarves?
April 2005: Beauty and the Beast, again
December 2005: My opinion on Mulan and Sleeping Beauty
December 2005: Racism in Disney Films
January 2006: Disney's contributions to folklore