The Emperor’s Old Groove: Decolonizing Disney's Magic Kingdom - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820463639 ISBN 13: 9780820463636

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

Disney’s attempt to validate multicultural diversity may appear to be a worthy, even admirable, endeavor. However, the contributors of this book argue that the Disney company’s version of multiculturalism is really the same «old groove» – a surreptitious colonizing force that manipulates the psychological, cultural, and political identities of consumers, predominantly children. Demystifying the mechanisms and ideals through which Disney manages public values and expands its empire of illusory American culture, The Emperor’s Old Groove interrogates animation role models that perpetuate insidious racial, cultural, and gender stereotypes.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Brenda Ayres is a full professor and member of thegraduate faculty at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, where sheteaches English literature and also serves as Assistant Director to theuniversity's Honors Program. She is also the editor-in-chief for three journalsat LU. Most of her publications and conference presentations are in Victorianliterature (both American and British), which include over 150 articles plusthese book publications: Mary Wollstonecraft'sWar with Womanhood; Betwixt and Between the Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft;Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers: A Hall of Mirrors andthe Long Nineteenth Century; The Life and Works of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson,1835-1909; The Emperor's OldGroove: Decolonizing Disney's Magic Kingdom; Silent Voices: ForgottenNovels by Victorian Women Writers; Frances Trollope and the Novel of SocialChange; and Dissenting Women in Dickens' Novels: The Subversionof Domestic Ideology. Through Pickering and Chatto, she has been the generaleditor for two, four-volume series, TheSocial Problem Novels of Frances Trollope and The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope, as well as serieseditors for several of the novels in those series and for Jessie Fothergill's Kith and Kin in a series of New WomanFiction soon to be re-released through Routledge. She has also recentlypublished What Dog Lovers Know About God,an inspirational book/Bible study that is the first of seven to follow.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0820463639
• ISBN 13: 9780820463636
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 203
• Editor: Ayres Brenda