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The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds

The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds

by Ariel Dorfman (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

    $34.11
Synopsis

In this powerful cultural critique, Ariel Dorfman explores the political and social implications of the smiling faces that inhabit familiar books, comics, and magazines. He reveals the ideological messages conveyed in works of popular culture such as the Donald Duck comics, the Babar children's books, and Reader's Digest magazine. The Empire's Old Clothes was widely praised when it was first published in 1983. This edition, including a new preface by the author, makes a contemporary classic newly available.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 15 Feb 2010
ISBN 10: 0822346710
ISBN 13: 9780822346715
Book Overview: A classic text that challenges the ideologies behind much popular media, especially media aimed at children, which the Press will be putting back into print with a new preface.

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio

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.