Loveday Writing

Now that I’ve finished reviewing and analysing Disney’s Bronze Age, the next era I will be exploring is the Renaissance Era.

The Renaissance Era consisted of ten animated feature films, and lasted for ten years from 1989 to 1999:

• The Little Mermaid
• The Rescuers Down Under
• Beauty and the Beast
• Aladdin
• The Lion King
• Pocahontas
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Hercules
• Mulan
• Tarzan

The Renaissance Era is known for the implementation of a Broadway music style, a return to telling legends and fairytales (and bringing back the Disney Princess), brighter and friendlier stories with an emphasis on underdogs on a path to self-discovery, films with more epic scope and scale, and the expansion of computer-generated animation via the introduction of 3D animation and the CAP system.

The Renaissance Era ended with Tarzan in 1999, with the Post-Renaissance Era kicking off later in the year with Fantasia 2000.