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Author:   A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9780786459575

ISBN 10:   0786459573
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   22 February 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents 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      Index     

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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.

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