272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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Hirohito and his Mickey Mouse watch, Goofy and Donald as our "Goodwill Ambassadors:" Disney Discourse is an interdisciplinary examination of the founder and his empire. These essays use an interdisciplinary approach to read through Disney's domestic cultural production "innocent" national icons, as well as theme parks, cartoons and television to analyze the global impact of American popular... Read more
Introduction: How to Read Walt Disney, EricSmoodin; Part 1 A Disney Archaeology; Chapter 1 Genius at Work: Walt Disney*Atlantic Monthly, December 1940, Vol. 166, No. 6, pp. 689–701., PaulHollister; Chapter 2 Film Phenomena*Saturday Review of Literature, February 6, 1943, p. 19, WalterWanger; Chapter 3 Mickey Icarus, 1943: Fusing Ideas with the Art of the Animated Cartoon*Saturday Review of Literature, September 4, 1943, pp. 18–19., WalterWanger; Chapter 4 The Magic Worlds of Walt Disney*National Geographic, August 1963, pp. 159–207., Robert DeRoos; Part 2 National Production; Chapter 5 Disney's Business History: A Reinterpretation, DouglasGomery; Chapter 6 Disney After Disney: Family Business and the Business of Family, JonLewis; Chapter 7 Painting a Plausible World: Disney's Color Prototypes, RichardNeupert; Chapter 8 The Betrayal of the Future: Walt Disney's Epcot Center, AlexanderWilson; Part 3 The Global Reach Copyrighted; Chapter 9 “Surprise Package”: Looking Southward with Disney, JulianneBurton-Carva; Chapter 10 Pato Donald's Gender Ducking, JoséPiedra; Chapter 11 Cultural Contagion: On Disney's Health Education Films for Latin America, LisaCartwright, BrianGoldfarb; Chapter 12 Images of Empire: Tokyo Disneyland and Japanese Cultural Imperialism, MitsuhiroYoshimoto; Part 4 Reception; Chapter 13 The Mickey in Macy's Window: Childhood, Consumerism, and Disney Animation, RicharddeCordova; Chapter 14 Fantasia: Cultural Constructions of Disney's “Masterpiece”, MoyaLuckett;
Biography
Eric Smoodin is an Associate Professor of Literature at American University, Washington D. C. He is the author of Animating Culture: Hollywood Cartoons From the Sound Era.
