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Title: Deconstructing Disney by Eleanor Byrne, Martin McQuillan ISBN: 0-7453-1451-1 Publisher: Pluto Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: quite simply: splendid
Comment: this volume is indeed splendid. hello, i am an associate professor of disney studies at a small college in the northeast, and i've found byrne and mcquillan's research to square with my own, so doubtless i'm a credible reviewer. it's unfortunate that american higher education often neglects the study of disney; in fact, i'm petitioning at my own school to make disney studies part of the core curriculum. although this work may be steeped in terminology that's perhaps beyond the general reader's grasp, i urge him to tackle it nevertheless. Indeed, i think we should all devote some part of our life to the study of disney. quite simply, it's splendid.
Rating: 2
Summary: Painfully academic and clinical study of animated features
Comment: I thought this book would be more all encompassing, but it analyzes only the specifics of the animated features from 1989 to 1999 and ignores the rest of the company and the parks. Not a topic I care about.
It is also laughably pretensions and academic. The word 'oeuvre' is used 16 times before page 25. Here's just a piece of an actual run-on sentence from page 15..."one a Heideggerian-by-way-of-de-Man-Bennington-and-a-tradition-of-idnigenous-socialism, the other a post-colonialist-Bhabbha-Spivakc-Young-turning-left-at-feminism". I couldn't make this stuff up. About as fun as drinking bleach.
You would think that such a clinical dissection would at least be accurate, but the introduction alone has four glaring factual errors that instantly made me distrust any of the subsequent information. Some of the errors: Disney died in 1967, they're building a park in Beijing, Tokyo Disneyland isn't open yet, and calling Animal Kingdom 'Safari World'. This was written in 1999, so thereÃs no excuse for not checking these facts.
All in all a tedious read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Please reissue this book
Comment: This is a very insightful book. If you like depth on a subject, this book is for you. Essential reading for Disney fans. I never was able to locate a copy of my own.
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Title: From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture by Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells, Lynda Hass ISBN: 0253209781 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Disney Discourse: Producing the Magic Kingdom (Afi Film Readers) by Eric Loren Smoodin ISBN: 0415906164 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Mouse that Roared by Henry A. Giroux ISBN: 0847691101 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing (via NBN) Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy by Janet Wasko ISBN: 0745614841 Publisher: Polity Pr Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America (Institutional Structures of Feeling) by Stephen M. Fjellman ISBN: 0813314720 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $49.00 |
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