Animaiting Youth: The Disnification of Children's Culture.

Author: Giroux, Henry A.
Source: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu

Abstract

This text focuses on the influence Disney's animated films have on children's culture. Henry A. Giroux points out that the “Disney empire” must be seen as a pedagogy and policy making enterprise. Contrasting the well-kept image of an innocently pleasure distributing entertainment source, Giroux takes a look at the dark side of the latest Disney productions which he sees, for example, in the construction of subordinated gender identity of the female characters, or the celebration of deeply anti-democratic social relations.

Giroux, Henry A.

Henry A. Giroux is the Global TV Network Chair in Communications and
English at McMaster University in Canada. His most recent books are "The
Terror of Neoliberalism" (Paradigm), "Take Back Higher Education"
(co-authored with Susan Searls Giroux-Palgrave Press), and "The
Abandoned Generation" (Palgrave).