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The Wonderful World of the Depression: Disney, Despotism, and the 1930s. Or, Why Disney Scares Us
- The Lion and the Unicorn
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 28, Number 1, January 2004
- pp. 1-30
- 10.1353/uni.2004.0012
- Article
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Abstract
Shortsleeve suggests that an origin to the widespread mistrust of the Walt Disney Company is that it has not changed since its initial development in the 1930s. The company's success via an Orwellian-style management while selling utopian-drive dreams of monarchical kingdoms has subliminally frightened Disney critics. To divert attention from its totalitarian tendencies, Disney has overcompensated with insincere attractions about freedom and democracy. The Disney experience is a fractured one; the Disney fan is aware of the silent tension, which creates suspicion, paranoia, and mistrust.
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