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How to Read Donald Duck
Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic
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How to Read Donald Duck
Censored and condemned, this is a Marxist critique of how our favourite cartoons are vehicles for capitalist ideology.
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First published in 1971, How to Read Donald Duck shocked readers by revealing how capitalist ideology operates in our most beloved cartoons. Having survived bonfires, impounding, and being dumped into the ocean by the Chilean army, this controversial book is once again back on our shelves.
Written and published during the blossoming of Salvador Allende's revolutionary socialism, the book examines how Disney comics not only reflect capitalist ideology but are active agents working in this ideology's favour. Focusing on the hapless mice and ducks of Disney, curiously parentless, marginalised, and always short of cash, Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart expose how these characters established hegemonic ideas about capital, race, gender, and the relationship between developed countries and the Third World.
A devastating indictment of a media giant, a document of twentieth-century political upheaval, and a reminder of the dark undercurrent of pop culture, How to Read Donald Duck is once again available, together with a new introduction by Ariel Dorfman.
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How to Read Donald Duck by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart is often reviewed as a critical analysis of how Disney comics, particularly featuring Donald Duck, perpetuate cultural imperialism and capitalist ideologies. The book has sparked both acclaim and controversy, praised for its incisive critique and thorough analysis but sometimes critiqued for its politicised perspective. Reviews generally regard it as a provocative and insightful examination of media influence on culture and economics.
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ISBN: 9780745339788
Publisher: Pluto Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 March 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pluto Press
Illustration: 39 Illustrations, black and white
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 234g
Pages: 208
About the Author
Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean American writer. His works include the Laurence Olivier award-winning play Death and the Maiden. Armand Mattelart is a Belgian sociologist and well-known as a Leftist French scholar. His work deals with media, culture and communication, particularly in their historical and international dimensions.
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