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Summary: Painfully academic and clinical study of animated features
Review: 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 thereÕs no excuse for not checking these facts. All in all a tedious read.
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Summary: Please reissue this book
Review: 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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Summary: Please reissue this book
Review: 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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Summary: quite simply: splendid
Review: this volume is indeed splendid. hello, i am an associate professor of disney studies at a small college in the northeast, and i've found byrne and mcquillan's research to square with my own, so doubtless i'm a credible reviewer. it's unfortunate that american higher education often neglects the study of disney; in fact, i'm petitioning at my own school to make disney studies part of the core curriculum. although this work may be steeped in terminology that's perhaps beyond the general reader's grasp, i urge him to tackle it nevertheless. Indeed, i think we should all devote some part of our life to the study of disney. quite simply, it's splendid.
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Summary: Intelligent and to the point
Review: 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
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