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Valuable Political Insight,
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This review is from: How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic (Paperback)
Ariel Dorfman offers the reader valuable insight into the way in which Latin America has been regarded and utilized by modern nations, governments, and corportions. "How to Read Donald Duck" is interspersed with unbelievable (although real) Disney cartoons possessing ridiculous political implications: vultures representing Hegel and Marx, dogs dressed up like Che and Castro... you name it, and Disney has apparently given it to Latin America.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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A necessary starting-stone.,
By C. E. R. Mendonça "Carlos Eduardo Rebello de ... (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
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This review is from: How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic (Paperback)
Of course, in a vastly changed historical context, bourgeois ideology cannot produce anything approaching the seemingly reactionary facility of the Disney comic (just compare Disney with Buffy, Xena, or other postmodern heroes!). However, anyone trying to understand changes in the ideological outlook of Mass Culture must, of necessity, regard this book as one's unavoidablke starting-stone. That's that.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic (Paperback)
Dorfman and Mattelart's book is based on Donald Duck comics circulated throughout Latin America. Those books were translated and largely re-written by overzealous editors and are more different from than similar to Carl Barks' original comics. Insofar as one is interested in US / Latin American policy, politics and business, it is useful.
Disney's domestic business practives are by no means benign, but Barks is one of the more significant comics artists and enjoyed a much greater degree of creative freedom than most creators of the time. Barks cartooning is fluid and subtle, as is his storytelling. For an insight into "the Duck Man's" work, check out Donald Ault's much more up-to-date book "Carl Barks: Conversations."
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