Synopses & Reviews
A wide-ranging survey of American children's film that provides detailed analysis of the political implications of these films, as well as a discussion of how movies intended for children have come to be so persistently charged with meaning.
Table of Contents
Disney does America: a political history of children's film -- Disney after Disney: the fall and rise and fall of Disney's dominance in children's film -- Magic goes high-tech: Pixar and the children's film in the age of digital reproduction -- The contemporary challenge to Disney: Dreamworks and others -- Conclusion: the politics of children's film : what Hollywood is really teaching our children.