Critical Disney, Spring 2012 (Reading List)

Michael Mario Albrecht

Critical Disney: Kids, Corporations, and Media Culture

Spring, 2012, University of New Hampshire

Reading List

Baudrillard, Jean. “The Procession of the Simulacra.” Simulacra and Simulation. Trans. Sheila Faria Glaser. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Brockus, Susan. “Where Magic Lives™: Disney’s Cultivation, Co-Creation, and Control of America’s Cultural Objects.” Popular Communication 2.4 (2004): 191-211.

Budd, Mike and Max H. Kirsch.  Rethinking Disney:  Private Control, Public Dimensions.  Middletown, CT:  Wesleyan University Press, 2005.

Darmanin, Godwin. “From Second Life and Ski Dubai to the Embracing of Hyperreality and Pseudo Events – Reflections on Baudrillard, Eco, Boorstin, and Borgmann.” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 8.2 (2001).  <http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol8_2/v8-2-darmanian.html>.

Do Rozario, Rebecca-Anne C.  “The Princess and the Magic Kingdom:  Beyond Nostalgia, The Function of the Disney Princess.”  Women’s Studies in Communication 27.1 (2004):  34-59.

Drotner, Kirsten.  “Disney Discourses, or Mundane Globalization.”  European Culture and the Media. Eds. Ib Bondebjerg and Peter Golding.  Portland, OR: Intellect Books, 2004.

Eco, Umberto. “Travels in Hyperreality.” Travels in Hyperreality Essays Trans. William Weaver. New York: 1986.

Fung, Anthony and Mickey Lee.  “Localizing a Global Amusement Park: Hong Kong Disneyland.”  Continuum:  Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 23.2 (2009): 197-208.

Gregory, Sarita McCoy.  “Disney’s Second Line:  New Orleans, Racial Masquerade, and the Reproduction of Whiteness in The Princess and the Frog.”  Journal of African American Studies 14 (2010):  432-49.

Gillam, Ken and Sharron Wooden.  “Post-Princess Models of Gender:  The New Man in Disney/Pixar.”  Journal of Popular Film and Television 36.1 (2008):  2-8.

Giroux, Henry A. and Grace Pollock.  The Mouse that Roared:  Disney and the End of the Innocence, Updated and Expanded Edition.  New York:  Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. 

Hoerrner, “Gender Roles in Disney Films:  Analyzing Behaviors from Snow White to Simba.”  Women’s Studies in Communication 19.2 (1996):  213-229.

Houston, H. Rika and Laurie A. Meamber. “Consuming the ‘World’: Reflexivity, Aesthetics, and Authenticity at Disney World’s EPCOT Center.” Consumption Markets and Culture 14.2 (2011): 177-191.

Jeffords, Susan.  “The Curse of Masculinity:  Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.” From Mouse to Mermaid:  The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Eds. Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1995.  

Lacroix, Celeste.  “Images of Animated Others:  The Orientalization of Disney’s Cartoon Heroines From The Little Mermaid to The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”  Popular Communication 2.4 (2004): 213-29.

Lam, Sunny S.K. “‘Global Corporate Cultural Capital’ as a Drag on Glocalization:  Disneyland’s Promotion of the Halloween Festival.” Media, Culture, & Society 32.4 (2010): 631-48.

Levine, Elana.  “Fractured Fairy Tales and Fragmented Markets:  Disney’s Weddings of a Lifetime and the Cultural Politics of Media Conglomeration.”  Television & New Media 6.1 (2005):  71-88.

McLeod, Kembrew. “Confessions of an Intellectual (Property): Danger Mouse, Mickey Mouse, Sonny Bono, and My Long and Winding Path as a Copyright Activist-Academic.” Popular Music and Society 28.1 (2005): 75-93.

Meamber, Laurie A. “Disney and the Presentation of Colonial America.” Consumption Markets and Culture 14.2 (2011): 125-44.

Miller, Susan and Greg Rode. “The Movie You See, The Movie You Don’t:   How Disney Do’s That Old Time Derision. From Mouse to Mermaid:  The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Eds. Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1995.  

Sells, Laura. “‘Where Do the Mermaids Stand?’:  Voice and Body in The Little Mermaid.” From Mouse to Mermaid:  The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Eds. Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1995.  

Sweeny, Meghan. “‘Where Happily Ever After Happens Every Day’: Disney’s Official Princess Website and the Commodification of Play.” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 3.2 (2011): 66-87.

Sun, Chyng Feng and Erica Sharrer.  “Staying True to Disney:  College Students’ Resistance to Criticism of The Little Mermaid.”  The Communication Review 7 (2004):  35-55.

Telotte, J.P. “Song of the South.”  Quarterly Review of Film and Video 27.5 (2010):  392-94.

Wasko, Janet. “Corporate Disney in Action.” Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy. Malden MA: Polity Press, 2001.

Media and Consumer Culture, Fall 2011 (Reading List)

Michael Mario Albrecht

Media and Consumer Culture

Fall 2011, University of New Hampshire

Andrejevic, Mark.  “Surveillance in the Digital Enclosure.”  The Communication Review 10 (2007): 295-317. 

Benjamin, Walter.  “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”  Marxists.org.  Acessed 30 Aug 2011.  http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm

Foucault, Michel.  Discipline and Punish:  The Birth of the Prison.  Trans. Alan Sheridan.  New York:  Vintage Books, 1977.

Fuchs, Christian.  “Web 2.0, Prosumption, and Surveillance.”  Surveillance and Society 8.3 (2011): 288-309.

Giroux, Henry A.  “Private Satisfactions and Public Disorders: Fight Club, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Masculine Violence.”  JAC 21.1 (2001):  1-31.

Gladwell, Malcolm.  “The Coolhunt.”  The Consumer Society Reader.  Eds. Juliet B. Schor and Doublas B. Holt.  New York:  The New Press, 2000.

Haiven, Max.  “Privatized Resistance:  AdBusters and the Culture of Neoliberalism.”  The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 29 (2007): 85-110. 

Hausbeck, Kathryn and Barbra G. Brents.  “McDonaldization of the Sex Industries?:  The Business of Sex.”  McDonaldization:  The Reader, 3^rd ed.  Ed. George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press 2010.

Jurgenson, Nathan.  “The De-McDonaldization of the Internet.”  McDonaldization:  The Reader, 3^rd ed.  Ed. George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press 2010.

Lasn, Kalle.  Culture Jam:  How to Reverse American's Suicidal Consumer Binge -- And Why We Must.  New York:  Harper Paperbacks, 2000.

Lears, Jackson.  Fables of Abundance:  A Cultural History of Advertising in America.  New York:  Basic Books, 1994.

Lyon, David.  Surveillance Society:  Monitoring Everyday Life.  Philadelphia:  Open University Press, 2001.

Marx, Karl.  “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secrets Thereof.”  Marxists.org.  Accessed 30 Aug 2011.  http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#S4.

McAllister, Matthew P.  “Consumer Culture and New Media: Commodity Fetishism in the Digital Era.” Media Perspectives for the 21^st Century.  Ed. Stylianos Papathanassopoulos.  New York:  Routledge, 2011. 

Meyrowitz, Joshua.  “We Liked to Watch:  Television as Progenitor of the Surveillance Society.”  The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 625.1 (32-48).

Monaghan, Lee F.  “McDonaldizing Men’s Bodies?:  Slimming, Associated (Ir)Rationalities and Resistances.”  Body and Society 13.2 (2007): 67-93.

Ritzer, George.  The McDonaldization of Society 6.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Pine Forge Press, 2011. 

Ritzer, George and Nathan Jurgenson.  “Production, Consumption, Prosumption:  The Nature of Capitalism in the Age of the Digital ‘Prosumer.’” Journal of Consumer Culture 10.1 (2010): 13-36.

Sandlin, “‘Mixing Pop (Culture) and Politics’:  Cultural Resistance, Culture Jamming, and Anti-Consumption Activism as Critical Public Pedagogy.”  Curriculum Inquiry 38.3 (2008): 323-350.

Schor, Juliet.  “The New Politics of Consumptions:  Why Americans Want So Much More than They Need.”  Boston Review.  Summer, 1999:  1-26.

Schwartz, Barry.  “The Tyranny of Choice.”  Scientific American.  April 2004:  71-75.

Taylor, Betsy and Dave Tilford.  “Why Consumption Matters.”  The Consumer Society Reader.  Eds. Juliet B. Schor and Doublas B. Holt.  New York:  The New Press, 2000.

Waetjen, Jarrod and Timothy A. Gibson.  “Harry Potter and the Commodity Fetish:  Activating Consumer Readings in the Journey from Text to Commercial Intertext.”  Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 4.1 (2007):  3-26.

Waldman, Steven.  “The Tyranny of Choice.”  The New Republic.  27 January, 1992:  22-25.

Williamson, Judith.  Decoding Advertisements:  Ideas in Progress.  London:  Marion Boyars Publishers, 1994.

Willis, Susan.  A Primer for Daily Life.  New York:  Routledge, 1991. 

January Media Journal

Happy Endings [Season1]. Creator David Caspe. Fan Fare Productions, 2011.

Cooley, Mike. The Fool on Every Corner. Cooley Records, 2012.

The Untold History of the United States. Prod. Oliver Stone. Ixtlan Productions, 2012.

Not Fade Away. Dir. David Chase. Chase Films, 2012.

American: The Bill Hicks Story. Dirs. Matt Harlock & Paul Thomas. American the Movie, 2009.

Banyan. Live at Perkins Palace. Sanctuary Records, 2004.

Fleetwood Mac. Behind the Mask. Warner Brothers, 1990.

The Real Cancun. Dir. Rick de Oliveira. Bunim-Murray Productions, 2003.

Brinsley Schwartz. Surrender to the Rhythm. EMI, 2000.

Girls [Season 2]. Creator Lena Dunham. Apatow Productions, 2013.

Anthony Jeselnik: Caligula. Comedy Central, 2013.

Slobberbone. Barrel Chested. Doolittle Records, 1997.

Californication [Season 6]. Creator Tom Kapinos. Aggressive Mediocrity, 2013.

Bernie. Dir. Richard Linklater. Castle Rock Entertainment, 2011.

Murray, Susan and Laurie Ouellette, eds. Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture, 2^nd ed. New York: New York University Press, 2009.

Gournelos, Ted and Viveca Greene, eds. A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America. Oxford, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2011.

Material Issue. Freak City Soundtrack. Polygram Records, 1994.

The Ten. Dir. David Wain. City Lights Pictures, 2007.

1600 Penn [Season 1]. Creators Jason Winer, Josh Gad, and Jon Lovett. 20^th Century Fox Television, 2012.

Ouellette, Laurie and James Hay. Better Living Through Reality TV. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2008

Drivin’ N’ Cryin’. Wrapped in Sky. Geffen Records, 1997.

Utopia. Anthology: 1974-1985. Rhino Records, 1989.

Primitive Radio Gods. Rocket. Sony, 1996.

Bob Mould. Rykodisc, 1996.

Joe Jack Talcum. Home Recordings: 1984-1997. Valiant Death, 2005.

Tegan & Sara. The Con. Sire, 2007.

Dirty Bomb. King of the Hill. CD Baby, 2011.

December Media Journal

Herman Jolly—Bunker Life, Fortune Records, 2007.

The Flaming Lips—“She Don’t Use Jelly” [Maxi-Single], (Warner Bros., 1993)

Eddie Vedder at Ruth Eckerd Hall (Clearwater, FL)

Camper van Beethoven—Telephone Free Landslide Victory (I.R.S. Records, 1985)

The Call—Reconciled (Elektra, 1986)

Southern Culture on the Skids at Skipper’s Smokehouse (Tampa, FL)

Queen—News of the World (Hollywood Records, 1991/1977)

Dokken—Tooth and Nail (Electra, 1984)

Kix—Blow My Fuse (Atlantic, 1988)

Kings X—Out of Silent Planet (Megaforce, 1990/1988)

Various Artists—If I were a Carpenter (A&M, 1994)

Grateful Dead—In The Dark (Arista, 1987)

Julia Hatfield Three—Become What You Are (WEA, 1993)

Tegan and Sara—Sainthood (Sire, 2009)

Various Artists—Just Tell Me That You Want Me: Tribute to Fleetwood Mac (Hear Music, 2012)

Golden Smog—Red Headed Step Child [Maxi-Single] (Rykodisc, 1996)

Sexy Baby. Dir. Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus. Two to Tango Productions, 2012.

Les Miserables. Dir. Tom Hooper. Working Title Films, 2012.

The Central Park Five. Dirs. Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon. Florentine Films, 2012.

Portlandia (Season 1)

The Descendants. Dir. Alexander Payne. Fox Searchlight Films, 2011.

Django Unchained. Dir. Quentin Tarantino. The Weinstein Company, 2012.

Heckler. Dir. Michael Addis. Jizzy Entertainment, 2007.

Various Artists—I’m Not There Soundtrack. (Columbia, 2007).

Cashback. Dir. Sean Ellis. (Left Turn Films, 2006).