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Title: The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds by Ariel Dorfman ISBN: 0140256377 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67
Rating: 4
Summary: Reading Lone Ranger.
Comment: Personally, I think Dorfman to be above all a Marxist scholar of _American_ Mass Culture. His analysis of the Lone Ranger comic strips is a classic, above all for the link between superheroes and Welfare State reality. His analysis of Babar I find lacking somewhat in understanding of European realities (after all, to suppose that "savages" - elephants - can become civilized is, for a Frenchman of the 1930s, somewhat of a step foward)and therefore contrived. Meverthless, a must-read.
Rating: 1
Summary: Over-the-top and obsessive, nearly paranoid...
Comment: When I read this three years ago in college, I found it at first interesting, and then maddening. Even more maddening was my experience on a trip, when I met someone spouting the ideas in this book. I read Babar as a child - and I am NOT a colonialist, or anything like. He says, however, that in reading such stories I was indoctrinated as a child. He villifies our childhood comic books, and blames them for the mistakes that people in our country have made as adults. This book is written for the sort of people who think that "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" teaches racism. If you think that, sure, pick the book up. If you DON'T - then the book will only offend you.
Rating: 3
Summary: The Empire's Old Clothes
Comment: I read this book for a sociology class and it was interesting. The insights into children's stories are over the top at times, but overall it was an interesting book.
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Title: The United States and Latin America: Myths and Stereotypes of Civilization and Nature by Fredrick B. Pike ISBN: 0292785240 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Slotkin ISBN: 0806130318 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
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