Magic Kingdom Walt Disney and the American Way of Life

Name: Magic Kingdom Walt Disney and the American Way of Life
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ISBN: 9780395835876

ISBN-10: 0395835879

ISBN-13: 9780395835876

Edition: 1997 (Teachers Edition, Instructors Manual, etc.)

Authors: Steven Watts

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The Magic Kingdom is a full-length investigation of the life of Walt Disney, arguably the principal architect of mass culture in our time. By mid-century, "Uncle Walt" had become an American icon and was universally acknowledged as the spokesman for the American way of life; yet, paradoxically, he was instrumental in changing our social assumptions. Probing Disney's public life as a creative entrepreneur, Steven Watts argues that Disney reflected a central irony of modern American culture: while proclaiming a genuine allegiance to the values of an earlier age (self-reliance, the work ethic, the culture of domesticity, sexual inhibition), he also took the lead in creating the modern world of…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 1/12/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 608
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Illustrations	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xix
The Road to Hollywood
Disney and the Rural Romance	p. 3
Young Man Disney and Mickey Mouse	p. 24
The Entertainer as Success Icon	p. 42
The Disney Golden Age
Disney and the Depression: Sentimental Populism	p. 63
Disney and the Depression: Populist Parables	p. 83
The Entertainer as Artist: Sentimental Modernism	p. 101
Of Mice and Men: Art Critics and Animators	p. 120
Disney and American Culture	p. 143
The Fantasy Factory	p. 164
The Engineering of Enchantment	p. 183
Trouble in Fantasyland
Animation and Its Discontents	p. 203
Disney and the Good War	p. 228
Disney's Descent	p. 243
The Search for Direction	p. 263
Disney and the American Century
Cold War Fantasies	p. 283
Disney and National Security	p. 303
Disney and Domestic Security	p. 323
Citizen Disney	p. 346
Disney and the Culture Industry	p. 361
The Happiest Place on Earth	p. 383
Pax Disneyana	p. 404
It's a Small World, After All	p. 425
Epilogue	p. 446
Notes	p. 455
Bibliographic Essay	p. 509
Index	p. 513
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