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A review by bukukurasi
How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic by Armand Mattelart, Ariel Dorfman
3.0
First published in 1971 in Chile, in the midst of Salvador Allende's revolutionary socialism, the book is exposes how Disney established hegemonic ideas about capital, race, gender and the relationship between developed countries and the Third World.
Growing up with Disney's characters, it is difficult for me to accept them as agent of capitalism as suggested by the book. And since the book was published in the 70s, Disney/Donald Ducks magazines I read should be different from what they have in their era, right? But, to see in retrospect this book has unveil things that I could not see as a child, especially ideas about natives as savages and stupid.
It is not an easy read and at some point I think its analysis is over the top, but perhaps it is a translation issue, since its original book was published in Spanish. And, although it is suffocating, I also realize the importance of knowing the other side of my favourite cartoon characters.
Growing up with Disney's characters, it is difficult for me to accept them as agent of capitalism as suggested by the book. And since the book was published in the 70s, Disney/Donald Ducks magazines I read should be different from what they have in their era, right? But, to see in retrospect this book has unveil things that I could not see as a child, especially ideas about natives as savages and stupid.
It is not an easy read and at some point I think its analysis is over the top, but perhaps it is a translation issue, since its original book was published in Spanish. And, although it is suffocating, I also realize the importance of knowing the other side of my favourite cartoon characters.