A review by boithorn
How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic by Armand Mattelart, Ariel Dorfman, David Kunzle

3.0

In the context of a Latin America where Disney was exporting translations of their comics in order to promote US imperial power, this response is amazing. Outside of that context, it is a fine (and unfocused) demonstration on how ideologies imprint their tenets on media that rings a little hollow because it's removed from any sort of recent examples of Disney media. Definitely an influential text, but I'm sure someone could make a killer update to the blueprint by examining Disney's recent shift to fangless inclusive liberalism.