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Debating Disney - Pedagogical Perspectives on Commercial Cinema (Hardcover)
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With stakes in film, television, theme parks, and merchandising,
Disney continues to be one of the most dominant forces of popular
culture around the globe. Films produced by the studio are usually
blockbusters in nearly every country where they are released.
However, despite their box office success, these films often
generate as much disdain as admiration. While appreciated for their
visual aesthetics, many of these same films are criticized for
their cultural insensitivity or lack of historical fidelity. In
Debating Disney: Pedagogical Perspectives on Commercial Cinema,
Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode have assembled a collection of
essays that examine Disney's output from the 1930s through the
present day. Each chapter in this volume represents the conflicting
viewpoints of contributors who look at Disney culture from a
variety of perspectives. Covering both animated and live-action
films as well as television programs, these essays discuss how the
studio handles social issues such as race, gender, and culture, as
well as its depictions of science and history. Though some of the
essays in this volume are critical of individual films or
television shows, they also acknowledge the studio's capacity to
engage audiences with the quality of their work. These essays
encourage readers to draw their own conclusions about Disney
productions, allowing them to consider the studio as the hero-as
much as the villain-in the cultural deliberation. Debating Disney
will be of interest to scholars and students of film as well as
those with an interest in popular culture.
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