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Disney pirates : the definitive collector's anthology
\"Disney Pirates: The Definitive Collector's Anthology explores behind-the-scenes across ninety years of Disney film, television, and park history...\"--Book jacket.
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The Disneyization of society
′Alan Bryman has expanded on his well-known work on Disney and Disneyization to create a fascinating, highly readable book... This is an important book about a significant social process. And, it manages to be fun, as well!′ - George Ritzer, author of McDonalidization and Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland.
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Inside the Whimsy Works
In this never-before-published memoir from the vaults of the Walt Disney Archives, Disney Legend Jimmy Johnson (1917-1976) takes you from his beginnings as a studio gofer during the days ofSnow White and the Seven Dwarfsto the opening of Walt Disney World Resort. Johnson relates dozens of personal anecdotes with famous celebrities, beloved artists, and, of course, Walt and Roy Disney.
This book, also the story of how an empire-within-an-empire is born and nurtured, traces Johnson's innovations in merchandising, publishing, and direct marketing, to the formation of what is now Walt Disney Records. This fascinating biography explains how the records helped determine the course of Disney Theme Parks, television, and film through best-selling recordings by icons such as Annette Funicello, Fess Parker, Julie Andrews, Louis Armstrong, and Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Through Jimmy Johnson's remarkable journey, the film, TV, and recording industries grow up together as changes in tastes and technologies shape the world, while the legacy of Disney is developed as well as carefully sustained for the generations who cherish its stories, characters, and music.
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The Disney Fetish
Long considered a figurehead of family values and wholesome adolescence, the Disney franchise has faced increasing criticism over its gendered representations of children in film, its stereotypical representations of race and non-white cultures, and its emphasis on the heterosexual couple. Against a historical backdrop of studio history, audience reception, and the industrial-organizational apparatus of Disney media, Seán Harrington examines the Disney classics through a psychoanalytical framework to explore the spirit of devotion, fandom, and frenzy that is instilled in consumers of Disney products and that underlie the fantasy of the Magic Kingdom. This compelling study demystifies the unsettling cleanliness and pretensions to innocence that the Disney brand claims to hold.
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The Walt Disney Studios : a lot to remember
\"In 1925, two enterprising brothers named Walt and Roy Disney decided to go into the movie business together, establishing the Disney Bros. Studio in Los Angeles. Since then, Walt Disney Studios has released hundreds of groundbreaking and entertaining shorts, full-length feature films, and television programs in both animation and live action, garnering countless awards and accolades, as well as critical recognition and commercial success. Walt was never a man to rest on his laurels, and, as such, the Disney Studio continues to surpass itself, innovating new technology, pioneering groundbreaking techniques, and accruing higher box office returns with every passing decade. The studio's progression has consistently reflected the modernization and advancements in the filmmaking process, much of which has taken place on the Burbank lot. The studio has evolved considerably over the years as technology, tastes, and executive regimes have changed. The stories behind the soundstages, office buildings, landscapes, and facilities are as fascinating as the productions developed and filmed there. A wonderful history of the Walt Disney Studio comes alive within these pages. Discover how and why the edifices seen in the movies and on numerous TV shows were designed, built, and used, as well as which hit movies and television shows emerged from those very structures. The Walt Disney Studios celebrates Walt Disney's dream factory, which has always been and continues to be, the heart of The Walt Disney Company. From Pinocchio and Fantasia and World War II propaganda films to the Disneyland TV show, and Mary Poppins to Pirates of the Caribbean, some of the company's most monumental and iconic creations have been brought to life at the studio. So park your car in the Zorro lot, take a stroll down Mickey Avenue, have lunch at the commissary, and get ready for an insider's tour ... for this is the Walt Disney Studios like it's never been seen before.\"--Dust jacket.
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The mouse that roared : Disney and the end of innocence
How are children--and their parents--affected by the world's most influential corporation? Henry A. Giroux explores the surprisingly diverse ways in which Disney, while hiding behind a cloak of innocence and entertainment, strives to dominate global media and shape the desires, needs, and futures of today's children.
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From an idea to Disney : how branding made Disney a household name
\"From an Idea to Disney is a behind-the-movie-screen look into the history, business, and brand of the world's largest entertainment empire. With humorous black & white illustrations throughout, learn about the company behind the world's favorite mouse, Mickey!\"-- Provided by publisher.
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It’s the Disney version
In 1937, the first full-length animated film produced by Walt Disney was released. Based on a fairy tale written by the Brothers Grimm, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was an instant success and set the stage for more film adaptations over the next several decades. From animated features like and Bambi to live action films such as Mary Poppins, Disney repeatedly turned to literary sources for inspiration—a tradition the Disney studios continues well into the twenty-first century. In It’s the Disney Version!: Popular Cinema and Literary Classics, Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode have collected essays that consider the relationship between a Disney film and the source material from which it was drawn. Analytic yet accessible, these essays provide a wide-ranging study of the term “The Disney Version” and what it conveys to viewers. Among the works discussed in this volume are Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins, Pinocchio,Sleeping Beauty, Tarzan, and Winnie the Pooh. In these intriguing essays, contributors to this volume offer close textual analyses of both the original work and of the Disney counterpart. Featuring articles that consider both positive and negative elements that can be found in the studio’s output, It’s the Disney Version!: Popular Cinema and Literary Classics will be of interest to scholars and students of film, as well as the diehard Disney fan.
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