Disney Discourse

Producing the Magic Kingdom

Eric Smoodin, Eric Smoodin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781135216597
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

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 culture, the politics of Disney, and the complex reception Disney productions have received around the world.The Disney corporation's ever-increasing visibility the opening of Euro Disney and new stores in malls and vast influence over global culture demands critical attention not only in film and television studies, but in international diplomacy, architecture, economics and other related fields. Disney Discourse consolidates the best of the current work on Disney and provides a representative sample of past analyses of the Disney empire. Contributors: Julianne Burton-Carvajal, Lisa Cartwright, Brian Goldfarb, Richard deCordova, Douglas Gomery, David Kunzle, Jon Lewis, Moya Luckett, Richard Neupert, Susan Ohmer, José Piedra, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Alexander Wilson.

Index

• ABC television network 75–76, 80, 83, 189
• About Bananas 171
• Abrahams, Jim 94
• Abreu, Zequinha de 134
• The Absent Minded Professor 75
• Adorno, Theodor 188, 227
• The African Lion 57
• Agee, James 132
• Airplane 94
• Algar, James 57
• Ali, Muhammad 128
• Alice in Cartoonland 53
• Alice in Wonderland 11
• American Federation of Labor 73
• American Graffiti 95
• Anderson, Benedict 184
• Anderson, Bill 97
• Animal House 78
• Animation, after Disney 105
  • and art 218
  • and audio–animatronics 65–67
  • and children 210–211
  • and classical music 224
  • and cultural difference 12
  • and the Depression 17
  • and economics 72, 77
  • and film scholarship 4
  • and imperialism 174, 178
  • and labor 98
  • and live–action 137–140
  • and multiplane camera 54
  • production of 24, 26–32
  • and propaganda 6, 132–133, 153
  • and public health 176
  • reception of 11, 17
  • self–reflexivity 139
  • and sexuality 132, 140
  • and Technicolor 106–111 see also Walt Disney, Donald Duck, see also Mickey Mouse, see also Technicolor, Inc., and specific cartoon titles
• Anthony, Susan B. 9, 127
• The Apple Dumpling Gang 98
• Apple, Max 3
• Arachnoph...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: How to Read Walt Disney
• A Disney Archaeology
• National Production
• The Global Reach
• Reception
• Notes
• Index
• List of Contributors