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Empire’s Old Clothes
(
Subtitle:
What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds)
by
Ariel Dorfman
( Paperback)
ISBN:
9780822346715
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Price:
£14.99
Published in UK:
10/02/2010
In this powerful cultural critique, Ariel Dorfman explores the political and social messages behind the smiling faces that inhabit familiar books, comics, and magazines. He reveals the ideological messages conveyed in works of popular culture such as Donald Duck comics, the Babar children’s books, and the
Reader’s Digest
magazine.
The Empire’s Old Clothes
was widely praised when it was first published 1983. This edition, including a new preface by the author, makes a contemporary classic newly available.
Review Quote:
“
The Empire’s Old Clothes
is as lively and relevant today as it was when it first came out. People like myself who have read it previously will re-read it with pleasure, use it in their work and courses, and re-sing its praises.”—Douglas Kellner, author of
Guys and Guns Amok
“An intellectual book of the highest order, one that uses criticism to point a way toward social action.”—Herbert Kohl, The Philadelphia Inquirer “Dorfman has a serious point: that children and adult readers should be treated as intelligent beings with a capacity to absorb and recall details of historical and social concern. . . . He makes a compelling case against two-dimensional characters with no families, no past, and no responsibilities, who take actions with no real consequences, or who have adventures which change and resolve nothing.”—Warren Clements, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) “Dorfman has set out to reveal what everybody sees and nobody recognizes. . . . His case is persuasive (and also, not incidentally, often deadly humorous).”—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review “Dorfman’s arguments are witty, cogent and above all, persuasive. . . . Anyone who has ever looked at a movie or a comic book or a magazine (or plans to do so in the future) should read it.”—Newsday
