« Dis, quand on est mort, c’est pour la vie ? » Représentations thanatologiques dans les classiques d’animation Disney

The omnipresence of death is one of the conditions for the survival of stories. The analysis of the selected Disney classics accounts for the phenomenon’s inscription in each component of the narrative schema, starting with the initial situation—the loss of one or both parents—which often introduces the story and then places the heroes in a hostile environment, at the source of a desire for emancipation and identity construction.