This work is a wide-ranging survey of American children's film that provides detailed analysis of the political implications of these films, as well as a discussion of how movies intended for children have come to be so persistently charged with meaning.
M. Keith Booker is the James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professor of English and director of the program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Booker (English, U. of Arkansas, Fayetteville) examines dozens of
films from Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks, and other studios, from Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Up (2009), in an analysis of
the underlying political and cultural messages of children's films.
Contrary to claims that some children's films teach anti-American
ideas, he finds that the vast majority tend to support mainstream
American values, such as individualism, family, and capitalism. The
text contains an alphabetical list of all films cited in the text,
including the name of the film, the director, and year of
release.
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