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COPYRIGHT 2004 Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
The Emperor's Old Groove: Decolonizing Disney's Magic Kingdom. Ed. Brenda Ayers. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.
While the Disney corporation has been castigated for its ideological complicity with the most noxious aspects of capitalism, its cinematic oeuvre has rarely been critiqued with serious attention. This analysis of Disney is timely; it appears at a moment when orientalism and violence, especially with regard to depictions of the Middle East (as in the film Aladdin) are on the public mind. Ayers's book addresses this timeliness head on.
Those who teach courses on Disney and culture, or on fairy tales and cultural imagery, should find handy the thirteen essays. There are studied explorations of Pocahontas (and Pocahontas II) and Mulan, and even an essay on Marxist...
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