Empire's Old Clothes

by Ariel Dorfman

Book Overview

In this powerful cultural critique, Ariel Dorfman explores the political and social implications of the smiling faces that inhabit familiar books, comics, and magazines. He reveals the ideological... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394714865
• ISBN13: 9780394714868
• Release Date: May 1983
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Reading Lone Ranger.

Personally, I think Dorfman to be above all a Marxist scholar of _American_ Mass Culture. His analysis of the Lone Ranger comic strips is a classic, above all for the link between superheroes and Welfare State reality. His analysis of Babar I find lacking somewhat in understanding of European realities (after all, to suppose that "savages" - elephants - can become civilized is, for a Frenchman of the 1930s, somewhat of a step foward)and therefore contrived. Meverthless, a must-read.