| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Simpson Book in the Humanities |
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Simpson Book in the Humanities
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| Contents |
Introduction : "It's all me" -- "The pet in the family" : on the farm and in the city, 1901-1923 -- "A cute idea" : the self-taught filmmaker, 1923-1928 -- "You've got to really be Minnie" : building a better mouse, 1928-1933 -- "This character was a live person" : the leap to feature films, 1934-1938 -- "A drawing factory" : ambition's price, 1938-1941 -- "A queer, quick, delightful gink" : on a treadmill, 1941-1947 -- "Caprices and spurts of childishness" : escaping from animation, 1947-1953 -- "He was interested in something else" : escaping from film, 1953-1959 -- "This is where I am happy" : restless in the Magic Kingdom, 1959-1965 -- "He drove himself right up to the end" : dreaming of a nightmare city, 1965-1966 -- Afterword : "Let's never not be a silly company." |
| Summary |
Walt Disney (1901-1966) was one of the most significant creative forces of the twentieth century, a man who made a lasting impact on the art of the animated film, the history of American business, and the evolution of twentieth-century American culture. He was both a creative visionary and a dynamic entrepreneur, roles whose demands he often could not reconcile. In his compelling new biography, noted animation historian Michael Barrier avoids the well-traveled paths of previous biographers, who have tended to portray a blemish-free Disney or to indulge in lurid speculation. Instead, he takes the full measure of the man in his many aspects. A consummate storyteller, Barrier describes how Disney transformed himself from Midwestern farm boy to scrambling young businessman to pioneering artist and, finally, to entrepreneur on a grand scale. Barrier describes in absorbing detail how Disney synchronized sound with animation in Steamboat Willie; created in Snow White and the Seven .. |
| Analysis |
20th century american animation |
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20th century american culture |
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20th century american history |
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american business |
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american culture |
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animated films |
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biography |
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cartoon characters |
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cartoons |
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disney animation |
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disney company |
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disney studios |
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disney |
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disneyland |
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entrepreneur |
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mickey mouse |
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midwest |
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promotional |
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rural missouri |
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snow white |
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snow with and the seven dwarfs |
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steamboat willie |
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television |
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walt disney world |
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walt disney |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-377) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Disney, Walt, 1901-1966.
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| SUBJECT |
Disney, Walt, 1901-1966 fast |
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Disney, Walt 1901-1966 gnd |
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Disney, Walt. idszbz |
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Disney, Walt, 1901-1966. sears |
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Disney, Walt. swd |
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Animators -- United States -- Biography
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
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Animators
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Animatiefilms.
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Animators -- Biography.
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United States
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Verenigde Staten.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520941663 |
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0520941667 |
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9781429478212 |
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1429478217 |
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1281752606 |
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9781281752604 |
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