The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds

ISBN-10: 0394714865
ISBN-13: 9780394714868
Category: Books and reading
Pages: 225
Language: English
Published: 1983
Publisher: Pantheon
Author: Ariel Dorfman

Description

Argues that popular culture, in books, comics, and magazines, reflects reactionary values and looks at examples in the United States and Chile

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