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The mouse that roared : Disney and the end of innocence / Henry A. Giroux.
LIBRA PN1999.W27 G57 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giroux, Henry A.
- Series:
- Culture and education series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Walt Disney Company--History.
- Walt Disney Company.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 186 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [1999]
- Summary:
- How are children -- and their parents -- affected by the world's most influential corporation? Henry Giroux explores the surprisingly diverse ways in which Disney, while hiding behind a cloak of innocence and entertainment strives to dominate global media and shape the desires, needs, and futures of today's children.
- Giroux takes the reader inside she company's vision of the full range of its media -- its films, television, famous characters, and spin-off products, as well as its special school. Celebration. He reveals how Disney idealizes and implements its goal of building a world culture -- based on innocence and morals, but insidious in its consumerist exploits.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Disney's Troubled Utopia 1
- 1 Disney and the Politics of Public Culture 17
- 2 Learning with Disney 63
- 3 Children's Culture and Disney's Animated Films 83
- 4 Memory, Nation, and Family in Disney Films 123
- 5 Turning America into a Toy Store 155.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0847691098
- OCLC:
- 40723601
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