Henry A Giroux

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1) The mouse that roared: Disney and the end of innocence

Author

Giroux, Henry A

Series

Culture and education

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Pub. Date

c1999

Language

English

Description

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This expanded and revised edition explores and updates the cultural politics of the Walt Disney Company and how its ever-expanding list of products, services, and media function as teaching machines that shape children's culture into a largely commercial endeavor. The Disney conglomerate remains an important case study for understanding both the widening influence of free-market fundamentalism in the new millennium and the ways in which messages of...

2) American nightmare: facing the challenge of fascism

Author

Giroux, Henry A

Series

Open Media book
City Lights Open Media

Publisher

City Lights Books

Pub. Date

[2018]

Language

English

Description

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A far-ranging critique of the rise of authoritarianism and white nationalism in the US and the consequences for democracy. In this searing critique of the Trump presidency and the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S., Henry Giroux asks, How have we arrived here, and what can be done? In a discussion of events that ranges from the Administration's ongoing attempts to repeal Obamacare and its anti-immigration policies and travel bans, to the normalization...