How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic

International General, 1975. First edition in English. Stated second printing. Soft cover has soiling to covers. Contents tight with some general age discolouration and minor foxing to page edges. Previous owner name on front cover, page edges and inside.

The book has a rambunctious humor that complements its polemical spirit . . . As Disney has evolved from an animation studio into a corporate behemoth--with theme parks, a cruise line, and content streaming around the world--How to Read Donald Duck and its charge of cultural imperialism rings all the truer--The New Yorker

First published in 1971, How to Read Donald Duck shocked readers by revealing how capitalist ideology operates in our most beloved cartoons. Over the years, various editions have survived bonfires, impounding and being dumped into the ocean by the Chilean army.

Written and published during the blossoming of Salvador Allende's revolutionary socialism in Chile, the book examines how Disney products reflect capitalist ideology...