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UNINA9910463673903321 |
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A Mickey Mouse reader / / edited by Garry Apgar ; with contributions by Walter Benjamin [and twenty-one others] |
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Jackson, Mississippi : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1-62846-104-7 |
1-62674-059-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (pages cm) |
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Soggetti |
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Mickey Mouse (Fictitious character) |
Mickey Mouse (Fictitious character) in mass media |
Popular culture - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"Ranging from the playful, to the fact-filled, and to the thoughtful, this collection tracks the fortunes of Walt Disney's flagship character. From the first full-fledged review of his screen debut in November 1928 to the present day, Mickey Mouse has won millions of fans and charmed even the harshest of critics. Almost half of the eighty-one texts in A Mickey Mouse Reader document the Mouse's rise to glory from that first cartoon, Steamboat Willie, through his seventh year when his first color animation, The Band Concert, was released. They include two important early critiques, one by the American culture critic Gilbert Seldes and one by the famed English novelist E. M. Forster.Articles and essays chronicle the continued rise of Mickey Mouse to the rank of true icon. He remains arguably the most vivid graphic expression to date of key traits of the American character--pluck, cheerfulness, innocence, energy, and fidelity to family and friends. Among press reports in the book is one from June 1944 that puts to rest the urban legend that "Mickey Mouse" was a password or code word on D-Day. It was, however, the password for a major pre-invasion briefing.Other items |
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illuminate the origins of "Mickey Mouse" as a term for things deemed petty or unsophisticated. One piece explains how Walt and brother Roy Disney, almost single-handedly, invented the strategy of corporate synergy by tagging sales of Mickey Mouse toys and goods to the release of Mickey's latest cartoons shorts. In two especially interesting essays, Maurice Sendak and John Updike look back over the years and give their personal reflections on the character they loved as boys growing up in the 1930's"-- |
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UNINA9910786121103321 |
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Frieden Menachem Mendel <1878-1963.> |
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A Jewish life on three continents [[electronic resource] ] : the memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden / / translated, edited, and annotated, and with introductions and an afterword by Lee Shai Weissbach |
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (517 p.) |
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Collana |
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Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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WeissbachLee Shai <1947-> |
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Jews - Lithuania |
Jews, Lithuanian - United States |
Jews, Lithuanian - Israel |
Zionists - Israel |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Menachem Mendel Frieden's apologia -- My father's family -- My mother's family -- My father's house -- Me and my youth -- My entry into heder -- On my way through yeshivot -- Passover and the holiday cycle -- More yeshiva studies -- I study with rabbis -- Matchmakers and marriage -- America -- I found the best woman -- My journey to the land of Israel and my early activities there -- The work of Americans in the land of Israel and my role in it -- More on life in the land of Israel -- Travels, the era of World War II, and illness -- A |
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second trip to the United States -- Afterword : Menachem Mendel Frieden's journal and his life after 1947. |
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This remarkable memoir by Menachem Mendel Frieden illuminates Jewish experience in all three of the most significant centers of Jewish life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It chronicles Frieden's early years in Eastern Europe, his subsequent migration to the United States, and, finally, his settlement in Palestine in 1921. The memoir appears here translated from its original Hebrew, edited and annotated by Frieden's grandson, the historian Lee Shai Weissbach. Frieden's story provides a window onto Jewish life in an era that saw the encroachment of modern ideas into a traditional society, great streams of migration, and the project of Jewish nation building in Palestine. The memoir follows Frieden's student life in the yeshivas of Eastern Europe, the practices of peddlers in the American South, and the complexities of British policy in Palestine between the two World Wars. This first-hand account calls attention to some often ignored aspects of the modern Jewish experience and provides invaluable insight into the history of the time. |
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