Learning from Mickey, Donald and Walt Essays on Disney's Edutainment Films
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A. Bowdoin Van Riper is an historian specializing in depictions of science and technology in popular culture. He is the reference librarian at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, and is the author or editor of a wide range of volumes, ranging from science to science fiction to horror.Throughout its long and colorful history, Walt Disney Studios has produced scores of films designed to educate moviegoers as well as entertain them. These productions range from the True-Life Adventures nature documentaries and such depictions of cutting-edge technology as Man in Space and Our Friend the Atom, to wartime propaganda shorts (Education for Death), public-health films (VD Attack Plan) and coverage of exotic cultures (The Ama Girls, Blue Men of Morocco). Even Disney's dramatic recreations of historical events (Ten Who Dared, Invincible) have had their share of educational value. Each of the essays in this volume focuses on a different type of Disney "edutainment" film. Together they provide the first comprehensive look at Walt Disney's ongoing mission to inform and enlighten his worldwide audience.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A. BOWDOIN VAN RIPER
Section I: War and Propaganda
1. The Canadian Shorts: Establishing Disney’s Wartime Style
BELLA HONESS ROE
2. “Desiring the Disney Technique”: Chronicle of a Contracted Military Training Film
DOUGLAS A. CUNNINGHAM
3. Cartoons Will Win the War: World War II Propaganda Shorts
RICHARD J. LESKOSKY
4. Cartoon Combat: World War II, Alexander de Seversky, and Victory Through Air Power
JOHN D. THOMAS
Section II: Science, Technology, Mathematics and Medicine
5. The Promise of Things to Come: Disneyland and the Wonders of Technology, 1954–58
A. BOWDOIN VAN RIPER
6. A Nation on Wheels: Films About Cars and Driving, 1948–1970
A. BOWDOIN VAN RIPER
7. “A Journey Through the Wonderland of Mathematics”: Donald in Mathmagic Land
MARTIN F. NORDEN
8. Paging Doctor Disney: Health Education Films, 1922–1973
BOB CRUZ, JR.
Section III: Nature
9. “Nature is the Dramatist”: Documentary, Entertainment, and the World According to the True-Life Adventures
EDDY VON MUELLER
10. Sex, Love, and Death: True-Life Fantasies
RONALD TOBIAS
11. It Is a Small World, After All: Earth and the Disneyfication of Planet Earth
EDDY VON MUELLER
Section IV: Times, Places and People
12. A Past to Make Us Proud: U. S. History According to Disney
MARIANNE HOLDZKOM
13. Reviving the American Dream: The World of Sports
KATHARINA BONZEL
14. Beyond the Ratoncito: Disney’s Idea of Latin America
BERNICE NUHFER-HALTEN
15. Locating the Magic Kingdom: Spectacle and Similarity in People and Places
CYNTHIA J. MILLER
16. America’s Salesman: The USA in Circarama
SARAH NILSEN
About the Contributors
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