From Walt to Woodstock : : How Disney Created the Counterculture / / Douglas Brode.

With his thumbprint on the most ubiquitous films of childhood, Walt Disney is widely considered to be the most conventional of all major American moviemakers. The adjective "Disneyfied" has become shorthand for a creative work that has abandoned any controversial or substantial content to...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2004
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (286 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Disney’s Version /Disney’s Vision: The World According to Walt
  • 1. Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll: Disney and the Youth Culture
  • 2. Little Boxes Made of Ticky-Tacky: Disney and the Culture of Conformity
  • 3. The Man Who Says “No”: Disney and the Rebel Hero
  • 4. Toward a New Politics: Disney and the Sixties Sensibility
  • 5. My Sweet Lord: Romanticism and Religion in Disney
  • 6. Gotta Get Back to the Garden: Disney and the Environmental Movement
  • 7. “Hell, No! We Won’t Go!” Disney and the Radicalization of Youth
  • 8. Providence in the Fall of a Sparrow: Disney and the Denial of Death WHAT A
  • Conclusion. Popular Entertainment and Personal Art: Why Should We Take Disney Seriously?
  • Notes
  • Index