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Book Mouse Morality

    Book Details:
  • Author : Annalee R. Ward
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 0292773935
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Mouse Morality written by Annalee R. Ward and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2004 – Clifford G. Christians Ethics Research Award — The Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research Kids around the world love Disney animated films, and many of their parents trust the Disney corporation to provide wholesome, moral entertainment for their children. Yet frequent protests and even boycotts of Disney products and practices reveal a widespread unease with the sometimes mixed and inconsistent moral values espoused in Disney films as the company attempts to appeal to the largest possible audience. In this book, Annalee R. Ward uses a variety of analytical tools based in rhetorical criticism to examine the moral messages taught in five recent Disney animated films—The Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, and Mulan. Taking the films on their own terms, she uncovers the many mixed messages they purvey: for example, females can be leaders—but male leadership ought to be the norm; stereotyping is wrong—but black means evil; historical truth is valued—but only tell what one can sell, etc. Adding these messages together, Ward raises important questions about the moral ambiguity of Disney's overall worldview and demonstrates the need for parents to be discerning in letting their children learn moral values and life lessons from Disney films.

Book Quasimodo Mouse

Download or read book Quasimodo Mouse written by Bernard Stone and published by Not Applicable. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wildly comic successor to the popular Emergency Mouse and Inspector Mouse Quasimodo ant Toothy journey to the South of France by tandem. Children will be entranced by Bernard Stone's offbeat story and adults will enjoy spotting the echoes of famous paintings in Ralph Steadman's stunning artwork.

Book Doodaaa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ralph Steadman
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2003-11-01
  • ISBN : 9780747561873
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Doodaaa written by Ralph Steadman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An extraordinary mixture of autobiography, satirical art history and unhinged comedy.'- Independent on Sunday (UK)

Book Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists

Download or read book Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists written by Mark Bryant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1994, this dictionary provides a unique 'who’s who' of the major figures in the world of British cartoons and caricatures. It was the first book to encompass the entire field from c.1730 when Hogarth published the first of his 'modern moral pictures' to 1980. In addition to describing the careers and achievements of the artists and the characteristics of their styles, more than 500 entries give details of their publications, their illustrations to books and periodicals, exhibitions of their work, public collections in which their work is represented and literature on or referring to them. More than 150 illustrations are included. This is a comprehensive reference work and will be of interest to social and political historians as well as cartoon and caricature enthusiasts.

Book Inspector Mouse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernard Stone
  • Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
  • Release : 1981-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780030591136
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Inspector Mouse written by Bernard Stone and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinguished detective apprehends a gang of robbers who have stolen a shipment of valuable Limburger cheese.

Book The Junior Bookshelf

Download or read book The Junior Bookshelf written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Enchanting Tales of Elf Forest 4

Download or read book Enchanting Tales of Elf Forest 4 written by Mariken Karnas and published by Mariken Karnas. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More fairy stories from the wonderful enchanted Elf Forest for grandparents to read to grandchildren.

Book Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists

Download or read book Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists written by Mark Bryant and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British cartoonists and caricaturists are renowned worldwide. Originally published in 2000, this indispensable handbook offers a unique ‘who’s who’ of all the major artists working in Britain in the twentieth century and contains nearly 500 entries. Extensively illustrated, the book provides information on the work of artists such as Steve Bell, Gerald Scarfe, Posy Simmonds, Ronald Searle, Trog, mac and Larry as well as such past masters as David Low, Vicky, H. M. Bateman, Illingworth, Heath Robinson and more. The dictionary concentrates primarily on political cartoonists, caricaturists and joke or ‘gag’ cartoonists, actively working for the main Fleet Street national dailies and weeklies from 1900 to 1995. Each entry is cross-referenced and provides a concise biographical outline with an account of the artist’s style, influences and preferred medium. Where relevant the entry includes suggestions for further reading and notes solo exhibitions, books illustrated and works held in public collections. The Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists offers an insight into the lives of satirical artists working during a century that provoked cartoonists and caricaturists to a pitch of comic and artistic invention that has rarely been matched.

Book The Book Publishing Industry

Download or read book The Book Publishing Industry written by Albert N. Greco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Publishing Industry focuses on consumer books (adult, juvenile, and mass market paperbacks) and reviews all major book categories to present a comprehensive overview of this diverse business. In addition to the insights and portrayals of the U.S. publishing industry, this book includes an appendix containing historical data on the industry from 1946 to the end of the twentieth century. The selective bibliography includes the latest literature, including works in marketing and economics that has a direct relationship with this dynamic industry. This third edition features a chapter on e-books and provides an overview of the current shift toward digital media in the US book publishing industry.

Book Disney Gothic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lorna Piatti-Farnell
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2024-04-24
  • ISBN : 1666907219
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Disney Gothic written by Lorna Piatti-Farnell and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite Disney’s carefully crafted image of family friendliness, Gothic elements are pervasive in all of Disney’s productions, ranging from its theme parks to its films and television programs. The contributors to Disney Gothic reveal that the Gothic, in fact, serves as the unacknowledged motor of the Disney machine. Exploring representations of villains, ghosts, and monsters, this book sheds important new light on the role these Gothic elements play throughout the Disney universe in constructing and reinforcing conceptions of normalcy and deviance in relation to shifting understandings of morality, social roles, and identity categories. In doing so, this book raises fascinating questions about the appeal, marketing, and consumption of Gothic horror by adults and particularly by children, who historically have been Disney’s primary audience.

Book The Never End

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Reed
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2023-07-27
  • ISBN : 9819907659
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book The Never End written by John Reed and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents full history of the origin of Orwell’s Animal Farm, as well as a translation of the Russuian/Ukranian source work. Has George Orwell lost his saintly luster? In The Never End, rabble-rouser, dogged investigator, and consummate literary stylist John Reed collects two decades of subject-Orwell findings previously published in Pank, Guernica, Literary Hub, The Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, The New York Press, The Believer, Harper’s Magazine and The Paris Review. Reed’s treatment of Orwell is corrective and peerlessly contemporary; he views Orwell in a twenty-first century global context, considering Orwell’s collaboration with Cold War intelligence operations—US and UK—with unfaltering objectivity. It’s hard to imagine that Orwell—in our own moment of global doublethink—wouldn’t have wanted his devotion to contrariety applied to the literary legacy he left behind. The Never End is at once a hatchet job and a celebration. Animal Farm, based on a previously unknown Russian short story? Animal Farm, deployed by the CIA, MI6 and the Congress for Cultural Freedom? Orwell, turning over blacklists in a McCarthy-esque act of betrayal? The Cold War? Does it last forever? Russia, the “Axis of Evil,” and now China? But. Orwell. Course syllabi. Literary laurels. Snitch. Why do we keep coming back? For the wrong reasons? Or because we know Old Benjamin would want us to know the truth?

Book Falling Apart

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jane Lovering
  • Publisher : Choc Lit Limited
  • Release : 2014-05-05
  • ISBN : 178189115X
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book Falling Apart written by Jane Lovering and published by Choc Lit Limited. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is at stake in this bitingly funny and sexy vampire romance from an award-winning author. Jessica Grant is a tracker—and a liaison between the Otherworlders and the more human population of York. Her job is to keep the lively undead in their place. She knows all too well that falling in love with a vampire takes a leap of faith. But honestly, who can resist Sil? The leader of the Others has spent lifetimes perfecting the art of charm and seduction. Surely, she can trust him, can’t she? He’d never let his demon get the best of him. Would he? And if he promised never to leave her, then where in the Otherworld is he? Sil is at the top of the food chain—envied by men, desire by women, and as honorable as a vampire can be. So how is it that he’s on the run, hunted like invaluable prey, and leaving a trail of bleeding humans in his wake? Sil can’t remember for the life of him. Now Jess must choose which side she’s on, either find her lover and help him, or turn him in. Whatever she decides, there’s a high price to pay. And something to lose.

Book The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators

Download or read book The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators written by Alan Horne and published by Acc Art Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive reference companion volume to Dictionary British 19th Century Book Illustrators contains information on some 1000 British illustrators.

Book Growing Point

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Growing Point written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Television Shows  1925 through 2010  2d ed

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Television Shows 1925 through 2010 2d ed written by Vincent Terrace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 1331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully updated and expanded edition covers over 10,200 programs, making it the most comprehensive documentation of television programs ever published. In addition to covering the standard network and cable entertainment genres, the book also covers programs generally not covered elsewhere in print (or even online), including Internet series, aired and unaired pilot films, erotic series, gay and lesbian series, risque cartoons and experimental programs from 1925 through 1945.

Book The Gargoyles of Notre Dame

Download or read book The Gargoyles of Notre Dame written by Michael Camille and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the seven million people who visit the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris each year probably do not realize that the legendary gargoyles adorning this medieval masterpiece were not constructed until the nineteenth century. The first comprehensive history of these world-famous monsters, The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame argues that they transformed the iconic thirteenth-century cathedral into a modern monument. Michael Camille begins his long-awaited study by recounting architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc’s ambitious restoration of the structure from 1843 to 1864, when the gargoyles were designed, sculpted by the little-known Victor Pyanet, and installed. These gargoyles, Camille contends, were not mere avatars of the Middle Ages, but rather fresh creations—symbolizing an imagined past—whose modernity lay precisely in their nostalgia. He goes on to map the critical reception and many-layered afterlives of these chimeras, notably in the works of such artists and writers as Charles Méryon, Victor Hugo, and photographer Henri Le Secq. Tracing their eventual evolution into icons of high kitsch, Camille ultimately locates the gargoyles’ place in the twentieth-century imagination, exploring interpretations by everyone from Winslow Homer to the Walt Disney Company. Lavishly illustrated with more than three hundred images of its monumental yet whimsical subjects, The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame is a must-read for historians of art and architecture and anyone whose imagination has been sparked by the lovable monsters gazing out over Paris from one of the world’s most renowned vantage points.

Book Diversity in Disney Films

Download or read book Diversity in Disney Films written by Johnson Cheu and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural in its filmic fare and its image. From Aladdin and Pocahontas to the Asian American boy Russell in Up, from the first African American princess in The Princess and the Frog to "Spanish-mode" Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 3, Disney films have come to both mirror and influence our increasingly diverse society. This essay collection gathers recent scholarship on representations of diversity in Disney and Disney/Pixar films, not only exploring race and gender, but also drawing on perspectives from newer areas of study, particularly sexuality/queer studies, critical whiteness studies, masculinity studies and disability studies. Covering a wide array of films, from Disney's early days and "Golden Age" to the Eisner era and current fare, these essays highlight the social impact and cultural significance of the entertainment giant. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.