The mouse that roared : Disney and the end of innocence / Henry A. Giroux and Grace Pollock.

By:

Giroux, Henry A

Contributor(s):

Pollock, Grace, 1976-

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781442201446
1442201444

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mouse that roared .DDC classification:

384.80979494

LOC classification:

PN1999.W27

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Contents:

Introduction : Disney's troubled utopia -- Disney and the politics of public culture -- Learning with Disney : from Baby Einstein to High school musical -- Children's culture and Disney's animated films -- Disney, militarization, and the national-security state after 9/11 -- Globalizing the Disney empire -- Conclusion : turning the world into a Disney store.

Summary: This expanded and revised edition 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. The Disney conglomerate remains an important case study for understanding both the widening influence of free-market fundamentalism in the new millennium and the ways in which messages of powerful corporations have been appropriated and increasingly resisted in global contexts. New in this edition is a discussion of Disney's shift in.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This expanded and revised edition 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. The Disney conglomerate remains an important case study for understanding both the widening influence of free-market fundamentalism in the new millennium and the ways in which messages of powerful corporations have been appropriated and increasingly resisted in global contexts. New in this edition is a discussion of Disney's shift in.

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