This video examines the Disney Corporation and its multifaceted product line as cultural icon. This program takes a critical look at the realities these films create (in terms of the stories told about race, gender and class) and reaches disturbing conclusions about the values propagated under the guise of innocence and fun. This video insightfully analyzes Disney's cultural pedagogy, examines its corporate power and explores its vast influence on our global culture. Including interviews with cultural critics, media scholars, child psychologists, kindergarten teachers, multicultural educators, children, and college students. Mickey Mouse Monopoly will provoke audiences to confront comfortable assumptions about an American institution that is virtually synonymous with childhood pleasure.
This video examines the Disney Corporation and its multifaceted product line as cultural icon. This program takes a critical look at the realities these films create (in terms of the stories told about race, gender and class) and reaches disturbing conclusions about the values propagated under the guise of innocence and fun. This video insightfully analyzes Disney's cultural pedagogy, examines its corporate power and explores its vast influence on our global culture. Including interviews with cultural critics, media scholars, child psychologists, kindergarten teachers, multicultural educators, children, and college students. Mickey Mouse Monopoly will provoke audiences to confront comfortable assumptions about an American institution that is virtually synonymous with childhood pleasure.
General Note
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Content Note
Disney's commercialization of children'sculture.
Disney's media dominance
Disney's gender representations
Disney's race representations
Disney's commercialization of children'sculture.