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Understanding Disney : the manufacture of fantasy
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ISBN: 9780745695631 9780745695648 9780745695679 0745695671 0745695639 0745695647 Year: 2020 Publisher: Medford, MA : Polity,

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"Since the 1930s, the Walt Disney Company has produced characters, images, and stories that have captivated audiences around the world. In this updated second edition, with new examples provided throughout, Janet Wasko examines the processes by which the Disney company continues to manufacture the fantasies that enthrall millions"--


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The mouse that roared : Disney and the end of innocence
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ISBN: 1282522272 9786612522277 1442203307 9781442203303 9781442203297 1442203293 9781282522275 Year: 2010 Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield,

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This expanded and revised edition of Henry Giroux's highly acclaimed book explores and updates the cultural politics of the Walt Disney Company and how its ever-expanding list of products, services, and media function as teaching machines that shape children's culture into a largely commercial endeavor. In addition to updates throughout the book, this edition includes a new discussion of Disney's shift in marketing strategies targeting teens and tweens, a new chapter about globalization and Disney's empire, and a new chapter on Disney and national security after 9/11.


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The Disney fetish
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ISBN: 0861969081 9780861969081 9780861967131 Year: 2015 Publisher: Hertfordshire, England : John Libbey Publishing,

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Long considered a figurehead of family values and wholesome adolescence, the Disney franchise has faced increasing criticism over its gendered representations of children in film, its stereotypical representations of race and non-white cultures, and its emphasis on the heterosexual couple. Against a historical backdrop of studio history, audience reception, and the industrial-organizational apparatus of Disney media, Seán Harrington examines the Disney classics through a psychoanalytical framework to explore the spirit of devotion, fandom, and frenzy that is instilled in consumers of Disney


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Inside the whimsy works : my life with Walt Disney Productions
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ISBN: 1626740046 1617039306 9781617039324 1617039322 9781617039300 9781617039317 1617039314 9781626740044 9781617039300 Year: 2014 Publisher: Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi,

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"In this never-before-published memoir from the vaults of the Walt Disney Archives, Disney Legend Jimmy Johnson (1917-1976) takes you from his beginnings as a studio gofer during the days of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the opening of Walt Disney World Resort. Johnson relates dozens of personal anecdotes with famous celebrities, beloved artists, and, of course, Walt and Roy Disney.This book, also the story of how an empire-within-an-empire is born and nurtured, traces Johnson's innovations in merchandising, publishing, and direct marketing, to the formation of what is now Walt Disney Records. This fascinating autobiography explains how the records helped determine the course of Disney Theme Parks, television, and film through best-selling recordings by icons such as Annette Funicello, Fess Parker, Julie Andrews, Louis Armstrong, and Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra.Through Jimmy Johnson's remarkable journey, the film, TV, and recording industries grow up together as changes in tastes and technologies shape the world, while the legacy of Disney is developed as well as carefully sustained for the generations who cherish its stories, characters, and music"--

Deconstructing Disney
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ISBN: 0745314511 0745314562 1849645299 0585425760 9780585425764 9781849645294 9780745314563 9780745314518 Year: 1999 Publisher: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press,

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A close critical look at the new Disney canon - using deconstruction as a critical lever to engage with the films themselves, and the wider issues they raise.


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The princess story : modeling the feminine in twentieth-century American fiction and film
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ISBN: 9781433119521 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : P. Lang,

Tinker Belles and Evil Queens : The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out
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ISBN: 0814738702 0814738710 0585480079 9780585480077 0814731228 9780814731222 0814731236 9780814731239 9780814738702 9780814738719 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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From its Magic Kingdom theme parks to its udderless cows, the Walt Disney Company has successfully maintained itself as the brand name of conservative American family values. But the Walt Disney Company has also had a long and complex relationship to the gay and lesbian community that is only now becoming visible. In Tinker Belles and Evil Queens, Sean Griffin traces the evolution of this interaction between the company and gay communities, from the 1930s use of Mickey Mouse as a code phrase for gay to the 1990s "Gay Nights" at the Magic Kingdom. Armed with first-person accounts from Disney audiences, Griffin demonstrates how Disney animation, live-action films, television series, theme parks, and merchandise provide varied motifs and characteristics that readily lend themselves to use by gay culture. But Griffin delves further to explore the role of gays and lesbians within the company, through an examination of the background of early studio personnel, an account of sexual activism within the firm, and the story of the company's own concrete efforts to give recognition to gay voices and desires. The first book to address the history of the gay community and Disney, Tinker Belles and Evil Queens broadly examines the ambiguous legacy of how modern consumerism and advertising have affected the ways lesbians and gay men have expressed their sexuality. Disney itself is shown as sensitive to gay and lesbian audiences, while exploiting those same audiences as a niche market with strong buying power. Finally, Griffin demonstrates how queer audiences have co-opted Disney products for themselves-and in turn how Disney's corporate strategies have influenced our very definitions of sexuality.

The mouse machine : Disney and technology
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ISBN: 9780252033278 0252033272 9780252075407 0252075404 9786613895660 0252092635 1283583216 9780252092633 9781283583213 6613895660 Year: 2008 Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press,

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Throughout Disney's phenomenally successful run in the entertainment industry, the company has negotiated the use of cutting-edge film and media technologies that, J. P. Telotte argues, have proven fundamental to the company's identity. Disney's technological developments include the use of stereophonic surround sound for Fantasia, experimentation with wide-screen technology, inaugural adoption of three-strip Technicolor film, and early efforts at fostering depth in the animated image.Telotte also chronicles Disney's partnership with television, development of the theme park, and depiction of technology in science fiction narratives. An in-depth discussion of Disney's shift into digital filmmaking with its Pixar partnership and an emphasis on digital special effects in live-action films, such as the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, also highlight the studio's historical investment in technology. By exploring the technological context for Disney creations throughout its history, "The Mouse Machine" illuminates Disney's extraordinary growth into one of the largest and most influential media and entertainment companies in the world.

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