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Title: Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy by Janet Wasko ISBN: 0-7456-1484-1 Publisher: Polity Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: "Academia" at it's worst...
Comment: Being a Disney nut, I'll read just about anything that talks about the Disney corporation and culture. I found Understanding Disney at the library and eagerly picked it up. What a waste...
I should have been clued in on page 5 with this statement: "The continued expansion and popularity of the Disney empire calls for the deliberate integration of political economic analysis with insights drawn from cultural analysis and audience studies or reception analysis, or, in other words, analysis emphasizing the economic as well as the ideological, or production as well as consumption."
Huh?
She teaches a class at the University of Oregon on this stuff. Very academic and abstract, and too much so for my liking. While there were some interesting factoids about Walt's true history vs. the story told by Disney, she went into pure academia all too often. An example, labeled "Psychoanalysis And Pinocchio": "Brody observes the anal images and incorporation themes have been common in Disney tales, citing examples from The Three Little Pigs and Peter Pan. Anal images, especially featuring the "often-kick-in-the-butt" Jiminy Cricket, are a rampant in Pinocchio as images of erection (Pinocchio's nose, the donkey ears), and incorporation is appearnt in the scenes of Pinocchio and Gepetto in the whale's stomach."
Please!!!! You have *got* to be kidding me... She even covers Marxist analysis and the imperialist Disney. And kids pay to take this class?
Rating: 3
Summary: Wasko is a bit verbose
Comment: I have to agree with another reviewer. The text can be tedious and annoying while not conveying any information. Her many references to "which I will discuss in chapter (x)..." is so common it becomes a joke in her writing. While the text can be informative at times her writing style tends to be annoying and pretentious. It's reminiscent of a speaker who spends all their time telling you what they are going to tell you, that they dont really have that much to say in the end.
Rating: 5
Summary: the best book I have ever read about Disney
Comment: I have read many books on Disney. This book gives you all the details you want. It tells about the fun and interesting facts you want to know about disney. This book is a must. I have two of them just incase something happens to one of them.
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Title: The Imagineering Way : Ideas to Ignite Your Creativity by Imagineers ISBN: 0786854014 Publisher: Disney Editions Pub. Date: 30 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Designing Disney: Imagineering and the Art of the Show by John Hench, Wendy Lefkon, Peggy Van Pelt ISBN: 0786854065 Publisher: Disney Editions Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Walt Disney and the Quest for Community by Steve Mannheim ISBN: 0754619745 Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: The Pirates and the Mouse: Disney's War Against the Counterculture by Bob Levin ISBN: 156097530X Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Mouse that Roared by Henry A. Giroux ISBN: 0847691101 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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