Mouse Morality: The Rhetoric of Disney Animated Film

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Mouse Morality: The Rhetoric of Disney Animated Film
Annalee R. Ward
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
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"Through the worldview perspective, this book comes to grips with the incongruous moralities in Disney. It enables both parents and educators to gain a critical understanding of Disney content without being judgmental or promotional for the wrong reasons.... Mouse Morality is a pleasure to read and discuss in itself, but shows the pathway to media criticism of the first order."

—from the Foreword

Kids around the world love Disney animated films, and many of their parents trust the Disney corporation to provide wholesome, moral entertainment for their children. Yet frequent protests and even boycotts of Disney products and practices reveal a widespread unease with the sometimes mixed and inconsistent moral values espoused in Disney films as the company attempts to appeal to the largest possible audience.

In this book, Annalee R. Ward uses a variety of analytical tools based in rhetorical criticism to examine the moral messages taught in five recent Disney animated films— The Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, and Mulan. Taking the films on their own terms, she uncovers the many mixed messages they purvey: for example, females can be leaders—but male leadership ought to be the norm; stereotyping is wrong—but black means evil; historical truth is valued—but only tell what one can sell, etc. Adding these messages together, Ward raises important questions about the moral ambiguity of Disney's overall worldview and demonstrates the need for parents to be discerning in letting their children learn moral values and life lessons from Disney films.

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Another Academic Study.......2003-05-08

This is a relatively short academic work, with 135 pages of text, 16 pages of notes, a 20-page bibliography, and index. The author is Chair & Associate Professor of Communication Arts at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, IL. She draws her conclusions from five Disney contemporary animated features: The Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, and Mulan, with a chapter on each. These are bookended by two additonal chapters: Disney, Film and Morality: A Beginning and A Disney Worldview: Mixed Moral Messages.

I found this a mostly ponderous read and didn't think it broke any new ground. There just wasn't much for me to get excited about.

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A big bestseller in the UK and right on about the U.S.: Francis Wheen's delightful "assault on all things irrational, inexplicable, dumb-headed and phony" (The Financial Times)

What characterizes our era? Cults, quacks, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo, that's what. In How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World Francis Wheen brilliantly laments the extraordinary rise of superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria. From Middle Eastern fundamentalism to the rise of lotteries, astrology to mysticism, poststructuralism to the Third Way, Wheen shows that there has been a pervasive erosion of Enlightenment values, which have been displaced by nonsense. And no country has a more vivid parade of the bogus and bizarre than the one founded to embody Enlightenment values: the U.S.A. In turn comic, indignant, outraged and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World is a masterful depiction of the absurdity of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.

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Cutting through the foolishness.......2007-08-07

How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World isn't your book if you're a true believer in the common wisdom of the moment. Wheen has done his homework and has exposed the nonsense that poses as conventional truth.
We often accept various experts version of things without really checking their facts or track records. Wheen has checked and make considerable fun of much of what we take for granted.

Meade Fischer

"You know-nothing-know-it-all!".......2007-07-06

I rarely abandon books, no matter how mediocre they may be, but I ended up putting down "How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered The World" -- the tone was very, very Smug and Condescending, that the author was the One True Genius and whatnot, which got irritating, and his occasional political snide comments (of the expected "anyone who disagrees with me is OBVIOUSLY an idiot" type -- which is irritating even when you AGREE; sometimes I did -- not a fan of Thatcher myself), but the thing that just made me give up was when he wrote about a book that was:
a) Dangerous
b) Kook Literature
c) Deadly Serious
d) Almost along the lines of The Turner Diaries in being a Nutjob Bible
and, finally,
e) clearly RAW's The Illuminatus Trilogy!, though not mentioned.

If there were an "F", it would be "Not at all a joke/satire."

It's kinda one of those things where I can take Know-It-All Pomposity, at least KINDA, if it's clear that they do, well, indeed Know It All. But... man, bush league errors like that? I flipped all around the book for some sort of sign he was going to, y'know, wink. Or something. But... yeah. After making sure that he really did think that The Illuminatus Trilogy was a Dangerous Text For People Who Want To Blow Up The World With Fertilizer Bombs And U-Hauls, it kinda, erm, made everything he said kinda suspect and his tone downright untakeable.

Excellent in parts but has serious flaws.......2006-09-02

There is no doubt that, despite the huge advances which have been brought by reason and science, an alarming number of people, many of them highly educated, have turned away from reason in favour of new age nonsense or the most simplistic forms of old-established religions. Although Francis Wheen's book has some very serious flaws, it does provoke a great deal of thought about why.

Let's get the negative comment out of the way first. Francis Wheen was a journalist on The Guardian, the main left-wing/liberal newspaper in the UK. In certain parts of the book he allows his left/liberal prejudices an inappropriate degree of latitude given the sort of book this is advertised as being.

The book completely fails to make any distinction whatsoever between mainstream views which the author does not happen to agree with and the genuine 24-carat nonsense which the title, dust jacket, and advertising claim it to be about. Almost everyone to the right of Michael Moore in the States or Roy Hattersley in the UK - including New Democrats such as Bill and Hillary Clinton and Al Gore, and New Labour figures like Tony Blair - is presented as irrational. Sometimes Wheen can give chapter and verse to justify this, but at other times he is just venting his own irrational prejudices.

For example, the entire first chapter of the book is a left-liberal polemic against Thatcherism and Reaganism, during which he attacks Nobel prizewinning academics like Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek in similar terms to those which he uses to dismiss the views of the American presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan.

My problem with this is not that Wheen disagrees with Friedman and Hayek - I don't share all their views myself. My problem is that, in a book which is supposed to be about the flight from rationality, he writes about rational people who arrived at their views by scientific sifting of the evidence on subjects which they have studied far more intensively than he has, as if they were in the same league as the nutters, fraudsters and snake oil salesmen of whom his criticisms are much more justified.

At a risk of labouring the point, Friedman's study of the economic causes of the Great Depression which won him the Nobel Prize, and his speech in 1967 correctly predicting that the Phillips Curve relationship between unemployment and inflation which had worked for the previous century was about to collapse, are recognised as brilliant by many economists including plenty of left-wing or Keynsian views.

Friedman had previously said that "we are all Keynsians now" and one of the world's leading economists, who was a prominent Keynsian, meant it as a complement to Milton Friedman when he said in response "we are all monetarists now." My first economics tutor, a left-wing Keynsian, once qualified a critique of Friedman - the rest of which Francis Wheen would almost certainly have agreed with - by emphasising that although he was about to strongly disagree with some of Friedman's views he considered him a brilliant economist who richly deserved his Nobel prize.

The point I am making is not whether Friedman is right or wrong, it is that he has no place in a book on the flight from reason. For Francis Wheen to write of Friedman and Hayek in the same way as he writes of anti-rational religious fanatics like William Jennings Bryan does not enhance his case. I would make exactly the same criticisms if a right-wing author were to write a book like this one, start it with a first chapter accusing all left-wingers of being irrational, and include equivalent misplaced criticism of the late John Kenneth Galbraith.

I am not sure why Francis Wheen does not present any distinction between views that a rational person could hold but he doesn't, and views which could only be held by someone seriously adrift from reality. I hope it is because he did not think it necessary.

I came very close to throwing this book in the bin towards the end of the first chapter, which gave me the impression that I can been conned into wasting money on a bog-standard left-wing denunciation of all views to the right of Michael Moore and Roy Hattersley rather than the critique of new age irrationalism promised on the cover.

However, I am glad I persevered, because after the first chapter Mr Wheen starts to cover a much wider range of subjects, present a more balanced approach and produce evidence to back up his views which I found significantly more convincing. From chapter 2 onwards he does make a serious attempt to chart some of the irrational views which have emerged or re-emerged over the past 20 years on both left and right. Subjects covered by the book include fundamentalist attempts to prevent the teaching of evolution, management gobbledegook, astrology, academic fads like "deconstructionism," flying saucers and Alien abduction, and quack medicinal ideas such as Homeopathy.

An example of one of the many good sections in the book is that which considers the development and influence of "The X files". Apparently this TV programme is frequently quoted as a source by American university students, and when their tutors point out that it is fiction they reply "Yes, but it's based on fact." The programme's creator, Chris Carter, is quoted as saying that he originally intended that the programme would have episodes that exposed hoaxes and that "I wanted Agent Scully to be right as much as agent Mulder." But going with the paranormal explanation every time got better ratings.

As Richard Dawkins pointed out, if you had a detective series which had a white suspect and a black one every time, and the black person always turned out to be the guilty party, if would be totally unacceptable, and you could not excuse by saying this was just entertainment and that result produced better ratings.

If Scooby-Doo, a humorous cartoon show, can be a big hit with children when the "supernatural" events always get exposed as a hoax, why can't the X files ? Are the people who make that show less talented than the creators of Scooby Doo ? Do the adults who watch it have critical faculties which are less developed than the children who watch Scooby Doo ? I have to wonder.

Taken as a whole I would recommend this book to anyone interested in trying to understand why so many people have turned away from reason. Readers from Howard Dean or Gordon Brown and leftwards will enjoy the beginning of the book, readers from Al Gore or Tony Blair and rightwards will lose nothing but a boost to your blood pressure by starting at Chapter Two.

Disappointing.......2006-04-26

I had high hopes for this volume- but like many other reviewers, I was dimayed by the author's profound ignorance or economics, and even more profound ignorance of history. He has the British Left's rabid hatred of Maggie Thatcher, and consequently he is blind to the tremendous economic resurgence of Great Britain under her leadership. Similarly, his analysis of fiscal policies under Reagan consists mainly of reciting old charges of "voodoo economics", and so he blames tax cuts for deficits- instead of actually looking at the record, and discovering that US tax receipts actually increased after the '84 tax reform.

The remainder of the book consists in large part of assorted bits of nonsense found in government and academia, most of it of little consequence. There are some gems buried in their as well, but the bulk of the book is so taken with the author's personal predjudices and ignorance that I can't recommend it.

Entertaining, informative, opinionated, cynical.......2005-12-13

This is a good read, even though I write as someone more likely to use the word "Enlightenment" in a Buddhist context, rather than in reference to the revolution of "pure reason" inspired by the likes of Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton over two hundred years ago. Unfortunately Francis Wheen appears to believe that the two world views are mutually exclusive and that only truth derived from rationalism and scientific progress is the way forward. Surely there is room for both?! Possibly the author would dismiss this last suggestion as "post-modern relativism".

Still, Wheen makes a lot of good points and fires at a wide range of mostly easy targets in the modern world. His analysis of the emotional hysteria surrounding the death of Princess Diana is interesting and his cynical attacks on all things remotely "new age" are occasionally funny and insightful. Likewise the observations of various political and economic hypocrisies are well informed. However, he sometimes seems on the virge of dismissing all human feeling and failing as "Mumbo-Jumbo". By the end of this rambling book there is very little that has escaped criticism.

Amongst other things, this is an entertaining and informed overview of 25 years of social, political, and economic history. I will be re-reading sections of it but Wheen appears to be inhabiting a rather depressing intellectual world here. Many people have willingly embraced "non-rational" ideas and points of view because they have felt let down or alienated by the dehumanizing attitude of rationality and scientific progress that Wheen appears to worship.

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How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World
Francis Wheen
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Entertaining rather than enlightening.......2007-05-27

This is a sometimes-wonderful but ultimately frustrating book. Wonderful, because it brings together so many hilarious examples of crackpot thinking; frustrating because it fails to tie these examples together into any sort of unified thesis. Wheen adopts a scattergun approach, taking fire at neoliberalism, management theory, dotcom mania, postmodernism, new age religion, Islamic fundamentalism, self-help literature, UFO sightings, the Diana cult and more besides. "How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World" might more accurately be entitled "How Things that Really Annoy Francis Wheen Conquered the World". The tenuous thread which Wheen attempts to weave between these disparate phenomena is that they represent a betrayal of the Enlightenment and a retreat from reason and rational thought into ... well, mumbo-jumbo. Okay, but irrational thinking is hardly unique to our age and if we are to accept that there is something more pervasive or different about it today then we need to address two questions: first, what are the connections between all these different forms of mumbo-jumbo (apart from the fact that they are all really silly); and second, why are they flourishing today? Wheen fails to address these questions. Instead he relates a litany of human idiocy which is certainly amusing and sometimes even disturbing but which in the end doesn't really go anywhere. I had hoped for a concluding chapter which would draw the threads together and present a cogent argument as to what all this meant, but it was not to be. The final chapter in fact epitomised what is wrong with this book, lumping together a critique of the dotcom boom and the Enron saga with an excoriation of the political left's response to 9/11 and its supposed anti-Americanism. Maybe I'm missing something but I really don't get the connection between the criminal activities of Lay and Skilling and the intellectual failings of Chomsky and Moore. If there is a connection I would like Wheen to actually explain it. It does not suffice for him to simply laud the Enlightenment again and castigate those who "wish to consign us all to a life in darkness". For all his commitment to the Enlightenment, Wheen ultimately entertains rather than enlightens his readers. The book is superbly researched and delightfully written, and most of his targets deserve all the derision which is heaped upon them. It is worth reading for these reasons alone. But don't expect to emerge any the wiser.

Master Debunker.......2006-11-12

Francis Wheen is indeed a master debunker: erudite, passionate, lacerating and logical. Just about the only book I can compare his "How Mumbo Jumbo..." to is Peter Swirski's recent "From Lowbrow to Nobrow", which is eqaully fearful and exacting in debunking all kinds of myths and sloppy thinking in cultural and literary studies. Wheen's targets are as varied as, in most cases, politically charged: politicians, businessmen, tycoons, policy makers, cultural gurus, and plain old fashioned idiots. Particularly enjoyable is Wheen's dry British tone which, however, never prevents him from skewering the particularly offensive examples of Mumbo Jumbo with a rhetorical flourish.
Like Swirski's book, Wheen's contains a tremendous amount of information, often of rare nature. Being a picky reader myself, I did find one marginal inaccuracy: the rest of the book, as far as I can tell is a perfect ten on accuracy meter. Both writers are funny in the same undercutting way, and refreshingly politically incorrect when it comes to any number of political (Wheen) or cultural (Swirski) sacred cows. One are in which "Mumbo Jumbo" and "From Lowbrow to Nobrow" overlap is postmodernism and deconstruction: here I can only say that if you enjoyed Wheen, you'll enjoy Swirski even more.
All in all, a feast for all those whose hearts beat faster with each new issue of the Skeptical Inquirer.

Disappointing.......2006-04-28

Entertaining curmudgeon.......2005-12-20

Not bad. Not excellent, but an enjoyable read, overall.

Criticisms:

He wasted a lot of space with aimless ranting about the patently absurd (such as astrology, UFO's, etc. - you either don't need a warning or one won't work on you anyway) and seems to have almost a personal bone to pick with several people, with no sources cited in support(e.g. Noam Chomsky).

The overall structure appeared to be a "cite-cobbling" approach and could have used a bit more direction/focus. Each chapter sort of meandered from story to story; no overall cohesiveness.

Nitpicky detail: How the hell can you have a "long Blitzkrieg"?? Sorry, but it's been bugging me since I saw the phrasing.

Otherwise, it appears to have been nicely cited and edited. Give it a whirl. Or leave it on your coffee table to get people arguing over it when you're bored.

Entertaining, informative, opinionated, cynical.......2005-12-13

How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions

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Francis Wheen
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Too many words, too few good monsters.

So much, yet so lacking

Mutants and Machines?

Gamma World: Machines & Mutants (Gamma World)
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Too many words, too few good monsters........2005-10-10

This sourcebook was a big disappointment to me, especially considering the high list price. If you want to check this out, try one of the many used copies being sold now. My copy will soon be listed.

At first glance, I was psyched about this book. It contains nearly 200 creatures and robots of widely varying types, with a generous smattering of templates. In the end, this book has not been too useful to my campaign, and I have ended up making up a lot of my own monsters.

First, let me tell you what is good in this book.

Machines and Mutants (hereinafter "M&M") contains a collection of well-conceived critters. A lot of imagination went into this book. They had five authors, and it shows. I actually like many of the robots included. The robots in M&M can serve many roles in your campaign. Some are deadly adversaries, other comical nuisances. Some enhance PC's, or make useful followers. There are nine robot templates, allowing the GM to easily make up all kinds of crazy contraptions.

Also good are the "environmental templates" for monsters found in different ecosystems and climates. These help a GM create a world of genetic chaos by allowing further small variations on stock mutant creatures.

The main problem is that so many of the monsters in this book are *not* useful in a campaign. The prime example is the full page devoted to poison ivy. I'm not joking: regular old poison ivy, the nemesis of many a boy scout. While poison ivy can have a place in a campaign, it scarcely deserves an entire page in a core rulebook. There are many examples of the same problem: an entire page devoted to dust mites (again, I am not joking); nearly a whole page devoted to a bacterium whose only game-worthy property is providing power to nanobots; a half page devoted to a tree (bastard toadfax) whose only property is its spooky appearance; a whole page to a weed that is useful only for damaging crops; a whole page devoted to that fact that wasps like to live in fig trees; an insectivorous plant that is only useful for controlling insects; one and a half pages to flesh-eating bacteria; one half page devoted to a tree that produces superior wood; three-quarters of a page devoted to qat, the narcotic leaf from the real world; and many more. Quite a few creatures are exhaustively described whose only role in the game is to be eaten. There are some puzzling entries, such as the six-legged racoon that is for all intents and purposes exactly the same as a four-legged racoon.

Many of the monsters from the old TSR version of Gamma World are converted to d20 format, so that may be useful in many nostalgic campaigns (although this version of Gamma World is quite different in spirit from the old... if you liked the old Gamma World, you should be playing Omega World instead).

This book is not so much a good source of monsters as it is a good source of background. Many irrelevent creatures are described in depth. As a result, you pay a lot for a big book with little substance.

So much, yet so lacking.......2004-02-16

For the Gamma World campaign our group start, I went out and bought the necessary books. As I work on the campaign, I try to think of interesting scenarios the players are to encounter. My intent was to use Gamma World only creatures found only in this book, but I quicklky find out that this will not be enough. For as many creatures found in this book, there seems to be a strong lack of proper variety for more-common-but-not-too-common encounter. In other words, many of the badies found in this book are just too powerful OR mundane to use against a group of new to slightly advanced players. For now, I'll have to either use other characters as enemies than the information offered here.

I do, at least, recognize that in Gamma World, just the natural animals tend to be a scourge against the players -- and perhaps that is where this book is the most powerful.

Mutants and Machines?.......2004-02-13

The original and more appropriate title in some ways since this book deals a little more with the organic than the metallic.
As an addition to the d20 Gamma World system this book is a must have. It is well set up and presented with only a few minor glitches here and there. (and a whooooole lotta typoes.)
The art is again all black and white, with a good range and a fair representation of the creatures in question. Virtually every entry gets an illustration here. There are a few art goofs, in particular the depiction of the snake headed Hisser as human headed, and some other quirks. But for the most part the art is very good and they have some talented folk on hand.
Two big problems are that the back of the book declares that inside you will find rules for creating your own mutations and rules for interacting with the technological AI driven items of the Gamma World. These things are nowhere in the book.
Another oddity is that in the entire book there is only ONE directly PC useable mutation. Virtually all of the mutations used by creatures are FX and not truely for use by players.
Where this gets muddled is when one finds species set up to be used as PC playable... and they are using the creature mutations...

The good stuff about the book though will hopefully outweigh the goofs and omissions. There is a good deal of background into interspersed with each entry and the writing is overall fairly good and well thought out.
The book has dozens of new creatures both new to the d20GW setting and a few familliar faces from the older editions such as the previously mentioned Hisser. These creatures range from not just the hazardous, but cover a few neutral and beneficial ones as well. Multi-armed serpent people, illusion generating raccoons, combat modified engineered humans, eels that swim through flesh and bone as if it were not there, dolphins modifies for land dwelling and with an agressive wolf's instincts, and many more.
The robotics section introduces a wide array of mechanical and nanite driven entities and gives again a good spread of the banefull and the usefull. Mobile junk-mail robots, feral appliances modified with weaponry, mutant hunting infiltration and elimination units, mobile towers, group cyborgs, Art given sanity blasting form, and more. There is even a new cybernetic race available as PCs. AI automobiels.
The third section covers naturally occuring creatures and diseases and gives the GM some new and unusual things to toss at the players. Diseases that render the victem feral, horse shaped plants, environmental cleanup bacteria that work a little TOO well, horse-sized elephants, and other things to perplex and harass the players with.
The last section introduces some new Feats that boost aspects of mutations. and finishes with a batch of new Advanced Classes, one being the Hybrid Diplomat, a human who uses an implant to slowly metamorphose themselves into a hybrid of human and one choosen species.

This book should proove usefull to other d20 Modern settings and with a little work, even other d20 D&D settings. And hopefully the missing pieces will show up in the upcomming DMG book.

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When a company's facilities are intelligently, cohesively managed -- rather than just haphazardly operated -- the results go straight to the bottom line. And given the high costs associated with facilities, the savings that good management brings are significant.

Now completely revised and updated, this bestseller covers the entire facility management arena, including:

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Bible for FM.......2007-09-16

I am a Certified Facility Manager (CFM) and an Interior Designer and have been in the industry for over 15 years working now as a consulant primarily focusing on strategic planning. This is recognized as the go-to reference for all that is Facilities Management (FM). I still, even with my experience, review sections and have referred this book to many peers and clients. Cotts will always be someone in our industry who brought FM to the forefront and makes everyone aware that it's not just "fixing toilets!" Recommended for anyone who is head of facilities management, planning, administration or real estate for both Government and private industry. Also, coming from the design community, this book should be on every planners shelf. The value chain cycle begins with concept, but many in the design industry forget that this includes construction, operations and maintenance, and lastly disposal.

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Answers to hundreds of complex questions on developing a successful recycling program

Providing a bridge between recycling experts and the officials charged with developing and running recycling programs and operations, this practical reference offers an overview of recycling, including the current laws that govern recycling, the strategic goals of recycling programs, and the need to boost public awareness of the value of recycling.

The handbook examines a wide range of recyclable materials--from papers, plastics, and cans to construction and demolition materials and household wastes. For each material, it discusses collection and separation procedures, costs, the potential for re-use, the projected market, and problems and solutions. Numerous illustations highlight the technology used in creating an integrated system of waste management.

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