Learning from Mickey, Donald and Walt

essays on Disney's edutainment films

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A. Bowdoin Van Riper
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Learning from Mickey, Donald and Walt

essays on Disney's edutainment films

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"Throughout its long and colorful history, Walt Disney Studios has produced scores of films designed to educate moviegoers as well as entertain them. Each of the essays in this volume focuses on a different type of Disney "edutainment" film. Together they provide the first comprehensive look at Walt Disney's ongoing mission to inform and enlighten his worldwide audience"--Provided by publisher.

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McFarland
Language
English
Pages
264

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Learning from Mickey, Donald and Walt: Essays on Disney's Edutainment Films
2011, McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
in English
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Learning from Mickey, Donald and Walt: essays on Disney's edutainment films
2011, McFarland
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Table of Contents

Introduction / A. Bowdoin Van Riper
War and Propaganda. The Canadian shorts : establishing Disney's wartime style / Bella Honess Roe
"Desiring the Disney technique": chronicle of a contracted military training film / Douglas A. Cunningham
Cartoons will win the war : World War II propaganda shorts / Richard J. Leskosky
Cartoon combat : World War II, Alexander de Seversky, and Victory through air power / John D. Thomas
Science, technology, mathematics and medicine. The promise of things to come : Disneyland and the wonders of technology, 1954-58 / A. Bowdoin Van Riper
A nation on wheels : films about cars and driving, 1948-1970 / A. Bowdoin Van Riper
"A journey through the wonderland of mathematics": Donald in Mathmagic Land / Martin F. Norden
Paging Doctor Disney : health education films, 1922-1973 / Bob Cruz, Jr.
Nature. "Nature is the dramatist": documentary, entertainment, and the world according to the true-life adventures / Eddy von Mueller
Sex, love, and death : true-life fantasies / Ronald Tobias
It is a small world after all : Earth and the Disneyfication of Planet Earth / Eddy von Mueller
Times, places and people. A past to make us proud : U.S. history according to Disney / Marianne Holdzkom
Reviving the American dream : the world of sports / Katharina Bonzel
Beyond the Ratoncito: Disney's idea of Latin America / Bernice Nuhfer-Halten
Locating the Magic Kingdom : spectacle and similarity in People and places / Cynthia J. Miller
America's salesman: The USA in Circarama / Sarah Nilsen.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Jefferson, N.C

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/66
Library of Congress
PN1999.W27 L43 2011, PN1999.W27L43 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 264 p. ;
Number of pages
264

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24893337M
ISBN 10
0786459573
ISBN 13
9780786459575
LCCN
2010047490
OCLC/WorldCat
664656908

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