Phantasmagorical Culture: A Discussion of Disney as a Creator and a Cultural Phenomenon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Phantasmagorical Culture: A Discussion of Disney as a Creator and a Cultural Phenomenon write by Genevieve C. Goddard-Pritchett. This book was released on 2010-09-26. Phantasmagorical Culture: A Discussion of Disney as a Creator and a Cultural Phenomenon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Culture is informed by both the producers and consumers of that culture. However, in the case of the Walt Disney corporation, the producer is so powerful that it is not just informing culture but making a new culture all its own. Through playing on ideas of nostalgia, utopia, and the American dream, Disney has consturcted a world of fantasy that is becoming real in the eyes of consumers.
Phantasmagorical Culture
Phantasmagorical Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Phantasmagorical Culture write by Genevieve C. Goddard-Pritchett. This book was released on 2008. Phantasmagorical Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Disney, Culture, and Curriculum
Disney, Culture, and Curriculum - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disney, Culture, and Curriculum write by Jennifer A. Sandlin. This book was released on 2016-03-10. Disney, Culture, and Curriculum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A presence for decades in individuals’ everyday life practices and identity formation, the Walt Disney Company has more recently also become an influential element within the "big" curriculum of public and private spaces outside of yet in proximity to formal educational institutions. Disney, Culture, and Curriculum explores the myriad ways that Disney’s curricula and pedagogies manifest in public consciousness, cultural discourses, and the education system. Examining Disney’s historical development and contemporary manifestations, this book critiques and deconstructs its products and perspectives while providing insight into Disney’s operations within popular culture and everyday life in the United States and beyond. The contributors engage with Disney’s curricula and pedagogies in a variety of ways, through critical analysis of Disney films, theme parks, and planned communities, how Disney has been taught and resisted both in and beyond schools, ways in which fans and consumers develop and negotiate their identities with their engagement with Disney, and how race, class, gender, sexuality, and consumerism are constructed through Disney content. Incisive, comprehensive, and highly interdisciplinary, Disney, Culture, and Curriculum extends the discussion of popular culture as curriculum and pedagogy into new avenues by focusing on the affective and ontological aspects of identity development as well as the commodification of social and cultural identities, experiences, and subjectivities.
The Mouse that Roared
The Mouse that Roared - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mouse that Roared write by Henry A. Giroux. This book was released on 2010-04-16. The Mouse that Roared available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 its marketing strategies towards targeting tweens and teens, as Disney promises to provide (via participation in consumer culture) the tools through which young people construct and support their identities, values, and knowledge of the world. The updated chapters from the highly acclaimed first edition are complimented with two new chapters, 'Globalizing the Disney Empire' and 'Disney, Militarization, and the National Security State After 9/11,' which extend the analysis of Disney's effects on young people to a consideration of the political and economic dimensions of Disney as a U.S.-based megacorporation, linking the importance of critical reception on an individual scale to a broader conception of democratic global community.
Imagining the Global
Imagining the Global - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining the Global write by Fabienne Darling-Wolf. This book was released on 2014-12-22. Imagining the Global available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world, Imagining the Global reflects on what contemporary global culture can teach us about transnational cultural dynamics in the 21st century. A focused multisited cultural analysis that reflects on the symbiotic relationship between the local, the national, and the global, it also explores how individuals’ consumption of global media shapes their imagination of both faraway places and their own local lives. Chosen for their continuing influence, historical relationships, and different geopolitical positions, the case sites of France, Japan, and the United States provide opportunities to move beyond common dichotomies between East and West, or United States and “the rest.” From a theoretical point of view, Imagining the Global endeavors to answer the question of how one locale can help us understand another locale. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources—several years of fieldwork; extensive participant observation; more than 80 formal interviews with some 160 media consumers (and occasionally producers) in France, Japan, and the United States; and analyses of media in different languages—author Fabienne Darling-Wolf considers how global culture intersects with other significant identity factors, including gender, race, class, and geography. Imagining the Global investigates who gets to participate in and who gets excluded from global media representation, as well as how and why the distinction matters.
