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Reviews and Comments
"A daring and disturbing look at Disney's power to shape mass culture. Anyone who cares about children and commercial culture should see it, but get ready for the urge to cover your eyes as Mickey Mouse Monopoly chips away at one of America's favorite icons and leaves you with nothing but the ugly truth."
-Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Lesley University
"Viewing Disney without rose-colored glasses... Mickey Mouse Monopoly explores representations of race, gender, and class in Disney movies, drawing on interviews with media experts, teachers, parents and children."
-Boston Globe
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Mickey Mouse Monopoly
Disney, Childhood and Corporate Power
(2001)
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In this section:
Summary
Logistical Information
Biographical Summary
Reviews and Comments
Screenings and Festivals
Articles
Summary:
The Disney Company's massive success in the 20th century is based on creating an image of innocence, magic and fun. Its animated films in particular are almost universally lauded as wholesome family entertainment, enjoying massive popularity among children and endorsement from parents and teachers.
Mickey Mouse Monopoly takes a close and critical look at the world these films create and the stories they tell about race, gender and class and reaches disturbing conclusions about the values propagated under the guise of innocence and fun. This daring new video insightfully analyzes Disney's cultural pedagogy, examines its corporate power, and explores its vast influence on our global culture. Including interviews with cultural critics, media scholars, child psychologists, kindergarten teachers, multicultural educators, college students and children, Mickey Mouse Monopoly will provoke audiences to confront comfortable assumptions about an American institution that is virtually synonymous with childhood pleasure.
Interviewees include Henry Giroux, Diane Levin, Gail Dines, Elizabeth Hadley, Carolyn Newberger, Alvin Poussaint, and Justin Lewis. SECTIONS: Disney's Media Dominance / Disney's Gender Representations / Disney's Race Representations / Disney's Commercialization of Children's Culture
Logistical Information:
Produced & written by Chyng Sun
Directed, filmed and edited by Miguel Picker
An ArtMedia Production
Educational Distribution by the Media Education Foundation
Copyright 2001
Find out more at www.letstalkmedia.org
Biographical Summary:
Born and raised in Taiwan, Chyng Feng Sun is an awarding-winning children's book author in Chinese and English. Chyng has an M.A. in children's literature (Simmons College), an M.S. in Instructional Design (Syracuse University) and is currently a doctoral candidate in communication at UMass/Amherst. She has taught children's literature, children's book writing and media literacy on the college level and in teachers' and parents' workshops in the U.S. and Taiwan.
Miguel Picker is a Chilean composer, musician and award-winning video editor and producer. Often described as a "true Renaissance man", Miguel has held concerts, produced music and story CDs, animated films and videos for children and adults, in English and Spanish. His most recent music production is a collection of Latin songs and games (co-produced with Brookline teacher John Berman).
Screenings and Festivals:
The Milky Way, Jamaica Plain, MA (Screened October 2001)
Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge, MA (Screened June 2001)
Articles:
Meltz, Barbara F. "Viewing Disney Videos Without Rose-Colored Glasses," The Boston Globe; Thursday, April 5, 2001.
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