"How To Read Donald Duck"

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A Random

A Random

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Did anyone else read this book?
 
A Random said:
And from Chile, by a different guy outright.

The site I found an English version in removed it, but it's still found on the Internet Archive.
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I swear that I remembered Eco as the author. I think I got it confused because DonaldCapPig and other essay from Eco was used in a Exam in my college.

The teacher that made that Exam is pretty FAR left laden (of the type that believes that drug traffic can be considered "business" or Street Fighter is literally a game about knife fighting) and I remember the other essay was about comparing "similarities.
 
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I've heard of this, never read it. There was a chapter about it in a book I have called 'Propaganda Comics.' Basically the concept, as far as I could tell, was that because the Carl Barks duck comics are about a rich dude (Scrooge McDuck) and his efforts to get richer, they're pro-capitalist.
 
Tragi-Chan said:
I've heard of this, never read it. There was a chapter about it in a book I have called 'Propaganda Comics.' Basically the concept, as far as I could tell, was that because the Carl Barks duck comics are about a rich dude (Scrooge McDuck) and his efforts to get richer, they're pro-capitalist.
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Well, they kind of are, but I don't know that makes them "propaganda," as in an official government project to promote a certain set of ideas and actions. It's just the product of the capitalist society that created them, and is naturally favorable to its own social milieu.

It should also be noted that while the Barks Duck books were quite popular worldwide, they were mainly popular to a niche comic book fan audience in the United States, while being vastly popular in Europe, especially Norway for some reason. I would estimate that Donald Duck, especially Barks's version, is more popular than Mickey Mouse himself.
 
While I haven't read it, I think Dorfman's whole premise was flimsy and he decided to go after a cultural icon to gain prominence with the majority of the left wing in academia. Even so, "Death and the Maiden" is pretty much a masterpiece and one of my favorite plays of the latter half of the 20th century.
 
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