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The Disney Version: the Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney (Paperback)

by Richard Schickel (Author)
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  • Paperback: 391 pages
  • Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc; 3rd Ed edition (28 Mar 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1566631580
  • ISBN-13: 978-1566631587
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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This classic history of Walt DisneyAIs life and works asks penetrating questions about DisneyAIs achievements and shortcomings, and the enormous popularity of the Disney version.O One of the best studies ever done on American popular culture...unfailingly, consistently intelligent, and eminently readable.O -Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University. This may be the single most illuminating work on America and the movies.O-Robert W. Butler, Kansas City Star.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Walt Disney is trashed by a hack, 4 Feb 1998
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The positive reviews of this book have amazed me. This book is more than 300 pages of personal attacks and insults on everything Disney as ever produced or written. The author seems intent on personally insulting Disney and portraying him as a small-town idiot savante with no taste and no talent. He has dug up critical reviews of every Disney feature and manages to insult everything from Donald Duck to Bambi. The pretentiousness is laughable, and it seems as if every statement he makes ends with '... of course" to say that anyone with any intelligence obviously agrees with his every statement. An example of the laughable prose in this book: "Strategic bombing has, possibly, a special appeal to people of a midwestern background, for whom it may be the reverse coin of the region's traditional isolationism." (???) I expected this book to be critical of Disney; I have no problem with that. This book, however, portrays the man as an idiot with no taste and little talent and descends to such a low level of insults that it can only be considered a hatchet job.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The most humanizing look at a modern-day media god, 3 Dec 1997
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This book rarely appears on the recommended reading lists of the countless Disney fan web pages on the Internet, but it really should. Most fans of Walt are uneasy with the notion that he was human, he had feelings and that a real person lived beneath the carefully crafted studio facade.

Indeed, the title itself is a testament to the respect that Richard Schickel shows to his subject. While throughout the book, the reader is reminded that the serious arts community never considered Walt Disney to be one of them, Schickel is careful to subtitle the book "The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney". That alone speaks volumes of a man we may never really know enough about.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Walt Disney is critiqued by someone who appreciates him., 23 Mar 1997
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Unauthorized biographies are usually excuses to disembowel people whom the author doesn't like, but not this time. Schickel examines Walt Disney's virtues and vices, but sees them as a reflection of the virtues and vices of America. And like America, Disney is misunderstood by both his supporters and detractors.While Schickel finds fault in some of Disney's decisions and creations, he recognizes that Disney understood the American soul better than most self-styled intellectuals.

The book details the world in which Disney grew up, including cruelties usually glossed over in official Disney biographies. It examines Disney's films, theme park attractions and creations as both American myths and glimpses into Disney's worldview.

Within recent years paperback reprintings of the book have added an update chapter, "Disney Without Walt". The update reviews the financial problems and creative missteps of the Disney organization that almost resulted in an unfriendly takeover, and how Disney's spirit still affects the corporation's works. Schickel also took the opportunity to revise some judgements in the original book; it's a rare media critic that admits that he can make a mistake.

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