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Author Giroux, Henry A.

Title The mouse that roared : Disney and the end of innocence / Henry A. Giroux and Grace Pollock.

Publication Info. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 285 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Disney's troubled utopia -- Disney and the politics of public culture -- Learning with Disney : from Baby Einstein to High school musical -- Children's culture and Disney's animated films -- Disney, militarization, and the national-security state after 9/11 -- Globalizing the Disney empire -- Conclusion : turning the world into a Disney store.
Summary This expanded and revised edition explores and updates the cultural politics of the Walt Disney Company and how its ever-expanding list of products, services, and media function as teaching machines that shape children's culture into a largely commercial endeavor. The Disney conglomerate remains an important case study for understanding both the widening influence of free-market fundamentalism in the new millennium and the ways in which messages of powerful corporations have been appropriated and increasingly resisted in global contexts. New in this edition is a discussion of Disney's shift in.
Note Print version record.
Subject Walt Disney Company -- History.
Walt Disney Company. (OCoLC)fst00622498
Popular culture -- United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Populärkultur -- Förenta staterna.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Pollock, Grace, 1976-
Other Form: Print version: Giroux, Henry A. Mouse that roared . Lanham, Md : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2010 9781442201439 (OCoLC)437186767
ISBN 9781442201446 (electronic bk.)
1442201444 (electronic bk.)
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