Table of Contents

Introduction: How to Read Walt Disney, EricSmoodin; Part 1 A Disney Archaeology; Chapter 1 Genius at Work: Walt Disney*Atlantic Monthly, December 1940, Vol. 166, No. 6, pp. 689–701., PaulHollister; Chapter 2 Film Phenomena*Saturday Review of Literature, February 6, 1943, p. 19, WalterWanger; Chapter 3 Mickey Icarus, 1943: Fusing Ideas with the Art of the Animated Cartoon*Saturday Review of Literature, September 4, 1943, pp. 18–19., WalterWanger; Chapter 4 The Magic Worlds of Walt Disney*National Geographic, August 1963, pp. 159–207., Robert DeRoos; Part 2 National Production; Chapter 5 Disney's Business History: A Reinterpretation, DouglasGomery; Chapter 6 Disney After Disney: Family Business and the Business of Family, JonLewis; Chapter 7 Painting a Plausible World: Disney's Color Prototypes, RichardNeupert; Chapter 8 The Betrayal of the Future: Walt Disney's Epcot Center, AlexanderWilson; Part 3 The Global Reach Copyrighted; Chapter 9 “Surprise Package”: Looking Southward with Disney, JulianneBurton-Carva; Chapter 10 Pato Donald's Gender Ducking, JoséPiedra; Chapter 11 Cultural Contagion: On Disney's Health Education Films for Latin America, LisaCartwright, BrianGoldfarb; Chapter 12 Images of Empire: Tokyo Disneyland and Japanese Cultural Imperialism, MitsuhiroYoshimoto; Part 4 Reception; Chapter 13 The Mickey in Macy's Window: Childhood, Consumerism, and Disney Animation, RicharddeCordova; Chapter 14 Fantasia: Cultural Constructions of Disney's “Masterpiece”, MoyaLuckett;

About the Author

Eric Smoodin is an Associate Professor of Literature at American University, Washington D. C. He is the author of Animating Culture: Hollywood Cartoons From the SoundEra.