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18 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Intelligent and to the point
While the essays are a little overly verbose and unapproachable, the subjects they speak to are difficult to find elsewhere. In my personal research of Disney, I have not been able to find a more useful critique of the cinematics and plot of Disney movies
Published on May 3, 2000 by Kathryn
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42 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Painfully academic and clinical study of animated features
I thought this book would be more all encompassing, but it analyzes only the specifics of the animated features from 1989 to 1999 and ignores the rest of the company and the parks. Not a topic I care about. It is also laughably pretensions and academic. The word 'oeuvre' is used 16 times before page 25. Here's just a piece of an actual run-on sentence from page...
Published on August 4, 2001 by M. McCabe
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42 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Painfully academic and clinical study of animated features,
This review is from: Deconstructing Disney (Paperback)
I thought this book would be more all encompassing, but it analyzes only the specifics of the animated features from 1989 to 1999 and ignores the rest of the company and the parks. Not a topic I care about. It is also laughably pretensions and academic. The word 'oeuvre' is used 16 times before page 25. Here's just a piece of an actual run-on sentence from page 15..."one a Heideggerian-by-way-of-de-Man-Bennington-and-a-tradition-of-idnigenous-socialism, the other a post-colonialist-Bhabbha-Spivakc-Young-turning-left-at-feminism". I couldn't make this stuff up. About as fun as drinking bleach. You would think that such a clinical dissection would at least be accurate, but the introduction alone has four glaring factual errors that instantly made me distrust any of the subsequent information. Some of the errors: Disney died in 1967, they're building a park in Beijing, Tokyo Disneyland isn't open yet, and calling Animal Kingdom 'Safari World'. This was written in 1999, so thereĆ*s no excuse for not checking these facts. All in all a tedious read.
18 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Intelligent and to the point,
This review is from: Deconstructing Disney (Paperback)
While the essays are a little overly verbose and unapproachable, the subjects they speak to are difficult to find elsewhere. In my personal research of Disney, I have not been able to find a more useful critique of the cinematics and plot of Disney movies
4 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Please reissue this book,
By gobirds2 (New England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Deconstructing Disney (Hardcover)
This is a very insightful book. If you like depth on a subject, this book is for you. Essential reading for Disney fans. I never was able to locate a copy of my own.
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Deconstructing Disney by Eleanor Byrne (Paperback - January 1, 2000)
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