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Argues that Disney, more than any other influence in popular culture, should be considered the primary creator of the sixties counterculture - a reality that couldn't be further from his "conventional" reputation

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Disney's Version/Disney's Vision: The World According to Walt
• 1. Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll: Disney and the Youth Culture
• 2. Little Boxes Made of Ticky-Tacky: Disney and the Culture of Conformity
• 3. The Man Who Says "No": Disney and the Rebel Hero
• 4. Toward a New Politics: Disney and the Sixties Sensibility
• 5. My Sweet Lord: Romanticism and Religion in Disney
• 6. Gotta Get Back to the Garden: Disney and the Environmental Movement
• 7. "Hell, No! We Won't Go!": Disney and the Radicalization of Youth
• 8. Providence in the Fall of a Sparrow: Disney and the Denial of Death
• Conclusion. Popular Entertainment and Personal Art: Why Should We Take Disney Seriously?
• Notes
• Index

About the Author

Douglas Brode is a playwright, screenwriter, and journalist who teaches cinema studies at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

Reviews

"Brode's thesis is both revolutionary and totally without precedent. He steals from no one. Significance? No other moviemaker or mogul--Louis B. Mayer, Irving Thalberg, Orson Welles, etc.--has had such a deep and lasting impact on American popular culture as has Disney." --James MacKillop, author of Contemporary Irish Cinema: From The Quiet Man to Dancing at Lughnasa