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nickedkins's review against another edition
5.0
The authors do an excellent job of revealing the ideology baked into Disney comics and arguing why it's objectionable. The perspective of a South American reader is very interesting; it must have been incredibly galling to be lectured by these ducks embodying the limited and cruel worldview of the very people meddling with your country at that moment.
They keep a lively sense of fun throughout what would otherwise have been a bit of a slog. Ridicule is an entirely appropriate response to being bombarded by the kind of messaging represented by the Donald Duck comics.
They keep a lively sense of fun throughout what would otherwise have been a bit of a slog. Ridicule is an entirely appropriate response to being bombarded by the kind of messaging represented by the Donald Duck comics.
yiddish_anarchist's review against another edition
4.0
Highly accessible, plenty of humor, solid analysis, if somewhat dated in its direct arguments, but highly relevant in its meta argument.
catgirlrights's review
challenging
funny
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
The main issue I take with the book is mostly with the translation. The word choice is extremely dense and took me a couple times of reading many passages to understand the intention of what was being said. Very interesting and clever criticism of imperalism and capitalism in Latin America and how it manifests in Disney comics of the time.
viera's review against another edition
1.0
Everything I expected from such a title. Reductive while bloated, melodramatic yet tedious. This read like the manifesto of a sophomore YouTuber streaming from their bed but without any of the editing. I felt like I had already lost brain cells by page 50 out of 448. I was only able to get halfway through before I realized I wasn’t going to get the compelling narrative the other reviews promised.
aaroncutt's review
Not exactly what I was expecting. Lots of analysis surrounding the actual comic, but I wanted to see much more about the actual history of Chile, the US, the coup, and how the comic fed into it. I really didn't read much Disney growing up so i didn't connect with the material. Might return to it later.
horfhorfhorf's review against another edition
4.0
Really enjoy this - if only I could remember what drove me to read it?
hamroach's review against another edition
5.0
Thorough and rousing polemic against Disney comics that breaks down the world of Donald Duck. Published in 1971 Chile, it directly and systematically attacks imperial capital. A choice quote:
"In the Disney world, the proletariat are expelled from the society they created, thus ending all antagonism, conflicts, class struggle and indeed, the very concept of social class. Disney's is a world of bourgeois interests with the cracks in the structure repeatedly papered over. In the imaginary realm of Disney, the rosy publicity fantasy of the bourgeoisie is realized to perfection: wealth without wages, deodorant without sweat. Gold becomes a toy, and the characters who play with it are amusing children; after all, the way the world goes, they aren't doing any harm to anyone.... within that world. But in this world there is harm in dreaming and realizing the dream of a particular class, as if it were the dream of the whole of humanity. "
If you read Donald Duck comics as a child, which I did and greatly enjoyed, this work will make you see the comics and character universe in a different light.
"In the Disney world, the proletariat are expelled from the society they created, thus ending all antagonism, conflicts, class struggle and indeed, the very concept of social class. Disney's is a world of bourgeois interests with the cracks in the structure repeatedly papered over. In the imaginary realm of Disney, the rosy publicity fantasy of the bourgeoisie is realized to perfection: wealth without wages, deodorant without sweat. Gold becomes a toy, and the characters who play with it are amusing children; after all, the way the world goes, they aren't doing any harm to anyone.... within that world. But in this world there is harm in dreaming and realizing the dream of a particular class, as if it were the dream of the whole of humanity. "
If you read Donald Duck comics as a child, which I did and greatly enjoyed, this work will make you see the comics and character universe in a different light.