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Walt Disney - The Biography (Paperback)
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Walt Disney - The Biography (Paperback)
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From Neal Gabler, the definitive portrait of one of the most
important figures in twentieth-century American entertainment and
cultural history.
Seven years in the making and meticulously researched--Gabler is
the first writer to be given complete access to the Disney
archives--this is the full story of a man whose work left an
ineradicable brand on our culture but whose life has largely been
enshrouded in myth.
Gabler shows us the young Walt Disney breaking free of a heartland
childhood of discipline and deprivation and making his way to
Hollywood. We see the visionary, whose desire for escape honed an
innate sense of what people wanted to see on the screen and, when
combined with iron determination and obsessive perfectionism, led
him to the reinvention of animation. It was Disney, first with
Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films--most notably "Snow
White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, "and "Bambi--"who transformed
animation from a novelty based on movement to an art form that
presented an illusion of life."
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We see him reimagine the amusement park with Disneyland, prompting
critics to coin the word "Disneyfication" to describe the process
by which reality can be modified to fit one's personal desires. At
the same time, he provided a new way to connect with American
history through his live-action films and purveyed a view of the
country so coherent that even today one can speak meaningfully of
"Walt Disney's America." We see how the True-Life Adventure nature
documentaries he produced helped create the environmental movement
by sensitizing the general public to issues of conservation. And we
see how he reshaped the entertainment industry by building a
synergistic empire that combined film, television, theme parks,
music, book publishing, and merchandise in a way that was
unprecedented and was later widely imitated.
Gabler also reveals a wounded, lonely, and often disappointed man,
who, despite worldwide success, was plagued with financial problems
much of his life, suffered a nervous breakdown, and at times
retreated into pitiable seclusion in his workshop making model
trains. Gabler explores accusations that Disney was a red-baiter,
an anti-Semite, an embittered alcoholic. But whatever the
characterizations of Disney's personal life, he appealed to the
nation by demonstrating the power of wish fulfillment and the
triumph of the American imagination. Walt Disney showed how one
could impose one's will on the world.
This is a masterly biography, a revelation of both the work and the
man--of both the remarkable accomplishment and the hidden life
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