The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds - Hardcover
In this powerful cultural critique, Ariel Dorfman explores the political and social messages behind the smiling faces that inhabit familiar books, comics, and magazines. He reveals the ideological messages conveyed in works of popular culture such as "Donald Duck" comics, the Babar children's books, and the "Reader's Digest" magazine. "The Empire's Old Clothes" was widely praised when it was first published 1983. This edition, including a new preface by the author, makes a contemporary classic newly available.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Review:
"Dorfman has a serious point: that children and adult readers should be treated as intelligent beings with a capacity to absorb and recall details of historical and social concern... He makes a compelling case against two-dimensional characters with no families, no past, and no responsibilities, who take actions with no real consequences, or who have adventures which change and resolve nothing."--Warren Clements, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) "Dorfman has set out to reveal what everybody sees and nobody recognizes... His case is persuasive (and also, not incidentally, often deadly humorous)."--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "Dorfman's arguments are witty, cogent and above all, persuasive... Anyone who has ever looked at a movie or a comic book or a magazine (or plans to do so in the future) should read it." --Newsday
"The Empire's Old Clothes is as lively and relevant today as it was when it first came out. People like myself who have read it previously will re-read it with pleasure, use it in their work and courses, and re-sing its praises." --Douglas Kellner, author of Guys and Guns Amok
"An intellectual book of the highest order, one that uses criticism to point a way toward social action." --Herbert Kohl, The Philadelphia Inquirer
About the Author:
"The Empire's Old Clothes is as lively and relevant today as it was when it first came out. People like myself who have read it previously will re-read it with pleasure, use it in their work and courses, and re-sing its praises." --Douglas Kellner, author of Guys and Guns Amok
"An intellectual book of the highest order, one that uses criticism to point a way toward social action." --Herbert Kohl, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Ariel Dorfman holds the Walter Hines Page Research Chair of Literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University. A world-renowned author, he has written numerous works of fiction, plays, poems, and essays in both Spanish and English, including Death and the Maiden, as well as the acclaimed memoir Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey, and (with Armand Mattelart) How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherDuke University Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0822346591
- ISBN 13 9780822346593
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages208
- Rating
Other Popular Editions of the Same Title
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds
Published by
Duke University Press Books
(2010)
ISBN 10: 0822346591
ISBN 13: 9780822346593
Used
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized. Seller Inventory # M0822346591Z3
Buy Used
£ 51.08
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds
Published by
Duke University Press
(2010)
ISBN 10: 0822346591
ISBN 13: 9780822346593
Used
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardback. Condition: Good. Used copy in good condition - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Seller Inventory # D9780822346593
Buy Used
£ 110.02
Convert currency