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Mickey Mouse My Life in Pictures
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars MICKEY MOUSE IS STILL ON TOP
Everybody’s favorite cartoon character leads the parade of animated characters who charm children.
Just as the mystique of Mickey Mouse spans generations and cultures, Mickey Mouse: My Life In Pictures compiled by Russell Schroeder bridges the 70 years of Mickey’s fame. With over 200 illustrations plus original animation drawings it’s a collector’s item for Mouseketeers of all ages.
5 Stars Great!
This was a great book. It told Mickey’s life in Mickey style. The pictures in this book were awesome! I would recommend this book for kids ages five to ten.
4 Stars This book is an okay book
This book is OK. In this book Mickey Mouse tells his story from his first cartoon to his last cartoon. I do think this book would be a good answer to people that want to know more about Mickey Mouse.
The Disney Version The Life Times Art and Commerce of Walt Disney
This classic history of Walt Disney’s life and works asks penetrating questions about Disney’s achievements and shortcomings, and the enormous popularity of the Disney version. One of the best studies ever done on American popular culture…unfailingly, consistently intelligent, and eminently readable. –Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University. This may be the single most illuminating work on America and the movies. –Robert W. Butler, Kansas City Star
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars There’s a Better Bio on Disney
I recently read both this and Neal Gabler’s “Walt Disney, Triumph of the American Imagination,” and Gabler’s book (recently released) is an extroardinarily well-written (and detailed) attempt to give a balanced version of Uncle Walt. This book, unfortunately, has a point of view that is unwilling to take note of contrary evidence (although there is an interesting story here about the Disneyfication of American Culture, this book is simply too one sided.
2 Stars Stream-of-Consciousness writing
Taking into account the fact that this book is almost 40 years old, I found it extremely hard to follow. The author makes many pop-culture references pertinent to the time that I cannot relate to (as if he expects the reader to be a Hollywood-insider/contemporary of Disney’s). The book skips around to different time periods and is very dry. This is NOT a biography, as I thought, more of a commentary on Disney’s impact on American culture and entertainment, as it quickly summarizes Disney’s formative experiences as if the reader is expected to be familiar with them.
4 Stars Excellent read, but how credible is the information?
Schickel does a good research and puts facts down as they are, but he analyzes those facts from his own point of view. He thinks Disney works have manipulated masses who were of an inferior intellect and the company made fortune out of it.
While this may be true, the book could have been more balanced, with an unbiased view, mentioning many favorable things the Company created.
4 Stars Good, but not great
The book is definitly an in depth coverage of what happened in the early years of the Disney company, but it’s definitly more of a history of the company than a biography of Walt.
3 Stars Are you sure this is a biography?
More of a social history of cartoons and the movies and the common man, than that of an unbiased look at Walt Disney.
I felt that the author believed himself above us common Midwest, small town folks, and felt pity on us that we didn’t know that we were stupid and liked such low brow things like Mary Poppins, Snow White and Silly Symphonies. I think he equates pop culture with trash. I guess the millions and millions of people around the world that just want decent entertainment, and not some hidden meaning that needs interpretation, are fools. Or is he just jealous?
Walt Disneys Comics and Stories 661 Walt Disneys Comics and Stories Graphic Novels
Short stories and adventures featuring Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, and other standard Disney characters.