Learning from Mickey, Donald and Walt: Essays on Disney's Edutainment Films

by A. Bowdoin Van Riper

Book Overview

Throughout its long and colorful history, Walt Disney Studios has produced scores of films designed to educate moviegoers as well as entertain them. These productions range from the True-Life Adventures nature documentaries and such depictions of cutting-edge technology as Man in Space and Our Friend the Atom, to wartime propaganda shorts (Education for Death), public-health films (VD Attack Plan) and coverage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786459573
• ISBN13: 9780786459575
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher