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The Empire’s Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Duke Univ Pr
Publication date December 15, 2009
Pages 196
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780822346715
ISBN-10 0822346710
Dimensions 0.75 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight 0.70 lbs.
Original list price $22.95
Other format details university press
Summaries and Reviews
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In this powerful cultural critique, Ariel Dorfman explores the political and social implications of the smiling faces that inhabit familiar books, comics, and magazines. He reveals the ideological messages conveyed in works of popular culture such as the Donald Duck comics, the Babar children’s books, and Reader’s Digest magazine. The Empire’s Old Clothes was widely praised when it was first published in 1983. This edition, including a new preface by the author, makes a contemporary classic newly available.


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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780822346593
 
from Duke Univ Pr (December 15, 2009); titled "The Empire’s Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds"
9780822346593 | details & prices | 196 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $79.95
Paperback
Book cover for 9780140256376 Book cover for 9780394714868 Book cover for 9780822346715
 
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from Duke Univ Pr (December 15, 2009); titled "The Empire’s Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds"
9780822346715 | details & prices | 196 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $22.95
About: In this powerful cultural critique, Ariel Dorfman explores the political and social implications of the smiling faces that inhabit familiar books, comics, and magazines.
Reprint edition from Penguin USA (July 1, 1996)
9780140256376 | details & prices | 223 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $12.95
About: In this powerful cultural critique, Ariel Dorfman explores the political and social implications of the smiling faces that inhabit familiar books, comics, and magazines.
from Random House Inc (May 1, 1983)
9780394714868 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $12.95
About: Argues that popular culture, in books, comics, and magazines, reflects reactionary values and looks at examples in the United States and Chile

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