The Life Of Donald Duck

Describes the life of the Walt Disney star, Donald Duck.

Americans caught their first glimpse of Donald in Walt Disney's 1934 Silly Symphony called The Wise Little Hen. In that movie, a sailor-suited duck danced a clever hornpipe. With his next appearance, in Orphan's Benefit, he began to display his feisty personality. Since then this hot-tempered, web-footed wonder has cavorted through well over a hundred films, right into the hearts of millions of people worldwide, this "authorized biography" tells the rollicking, adventure-packed story of Donald's life.

Describes the life of the Walt Disney star, Donald Duck.

First published in 1971 in Chile, where the entire third printing was dumped into the ocean by the Chilean Navy and bonfires were held to destroy earlier editions, How to Read Donald Duck reveals the capitalist ideology at work in our most beloved cartoons. Focusing on the hapless mice and ducks of Disney--curiously parentless, marginalized, always short of cash--Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart dissect the narratives of dependency and social aspiration that define the Disney corpus. Disney recognized the challenge, and when the book was translated and imported into the U.S. in 1975, managed to have all 4,000 copies impounded. Ultimately, 1,500 copies of the book were allowed into the country, the rest of the shipment was blocked, and until now no American publisher has dared re-release the book, which sold over a million copies worldwide and has been translated into seventeen languages. A devastating indictment of a media giant, a document of twentieth-century political upheaval, and a reminder of the dark undercurrent of pop culture, How to Read Donald Duck is once again available, together with a new introduction by Ariel Dorfman.

The classic, critical and humorous study of cultural imperialism and children's literature; how the Disney fantasy world reproduces the "American Dream" fantasy world, and the disastrous effect of Disney comics and other "mass" cultural merchandise on the development of the so-called "Third" World. In 1973 this work was banned and burned in Chile, and later the English edition was banned for more than a year by the US government. In comic book format with cartoon examples, introduction by David KUNZLE on the Disney world, a bibliography of left writings on cultural imperialism and the comics, and an appendix by John Shelton LAWRENCE on the book's US censorship and the legal-political issues involved in the right to criticize Disney

Donald buys a house.

Life is about to change for Donald Duck, when he gets accepted to boarding school... in Mouseton! In the blink of an eye he goes from Grandma Duck's farm to school in the big city, where he makes lots of new friends. However, this new life isn't as easy as it seems, and Donald must learn to deal with new teachers, homework, competitions, and other challenges that come with school life. Every day is an adventure at Jeremy Ratt Boarding School!