How Does Walt Disney Influence Culture
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The Disney corporation is easily the greatest empire of entertainment in the world thanks to the creator Walt Disney and his brother. Disney’s influence has been great within culture and society and I learned how much of an influence Disney has had through our course this semester. This influence is reflected and broadcasted through the many works and readings that we examined in class. The articles gave me new knowledge about Disney that I was previously unaware of.
The article Hop on Pop (2002) explains how culture is influenced especially by the tactics of mass media and popular culture. This aspect is one that Walt Disney and his company used and did so very well. This article opened me up to think about how the media is trying to influence
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When on the topic of popular culture. I believe Disney does this by having the audience feel emotional connections to films that get them addicted to watching them. The feeling of nostalgia is a strong feeling that most of popular culture makes viewers want to experience films like they did in their past. Films work in a similar way as drugs do in that the first high is what addicts try to recreate over and over and will not stop trying to do this. Viewers of films try to recreate experiences of the joy of watching films in their …show more content…
Companies such as Disney own a vast number of media outlets so they are able to influence culture in a biased way that is shaped to how they want. The more money a company has then the more power and influential they can be and the Disney corporation has plenty of money and power. They are able to give us the information they want us to see and have in order to shape popular culture. There is no doubt that Disney effects culture particularly the American culture. When putting the three articles together you can see exactly how Disney is able to control popular culture and the media. Disney controls the media and uses propaganda in order to influence beliefs that shape a society’s culture.
Part 2. After going through the first semester of First Year Seminar Deconstructing Disney my viewpoints on many things have changed and how I watch and perceive films has also changed. However, the way I perceive the film Wall-E has not changed much. I am not sure if it is due to not covering this movie specifically or because I still hold on to the memory of how I first perceived it and am unwilling to change how I do. To me, Wall-E depicts a great love story as well as media and technology addiction with the addition of destruction due to overconsumption. After the knowledge that I have gained from class, I tried perceiving the film in a different
In this essay, the author
- Opines that the way they perceive the film wall-e has not changed much after attending the first semester of first year seminar deconstructing disney.
- Opines that disney was using symbolism to influence our culture so we don't get addicted to technology and take care of the planet before it's too late.
- Explains how disney's influence within culture and society is reflected and broadcasted through the many works and readings that they examined in class.
- Opines that the way they perceive the film wall-e has not changed much after attending the first semester of first year seminar deconstructing disney.
- Opines that disney was using symbolism to influence our culture so we don't get addicted to technology and take care of the planet before it's too late.
- Explains how disney's influence within culture and society is reflected and broadcasted through the many works and readings that they examined in class.
- Analyzes how disney influences popular culture by having viewers feel emotional connections to films that get them addicted to watching them. disney used short films to get people to join the war effort and push the ideology of communism.
- Analyzes how disney controls the media and uses propaganda to influence beliefs that shape a society's culture.
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- Analyzes how zia's essay argues that disney movies have a good influence on children by teaching them good life morals.
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1278 wordsRead More - How Did Walt Disney Influence The Worldanalytical essayEveryone is familiar with Disney, whether it be the theme parks, the channel, or the movies they create. But most people most likely do not know the history of how it got to the status that it has attained today. The basic knowledge around Disney is that it was started by Walt Disney but that is as far as their knowledge goes about Disney from the time the Disney Company was established to today. When Walt Disney first came out to Los Angeles to establish himself as an animator, he thought that he wasn’t going to able make an impact in animation. He said,“I was a little discouraged with the cartoon at that time, I felt at that time I thought I was getting into it too late. In other words, I thought the cartoon business was established in such a way that there was no chance to break into it.” (Kurti). Yet he was able to build a name for his company that is well known across the world. Walt Disney is the most influential person of the 1930-1940’s because of being the first animation studio at the time to do an animated feature film, the complexities of his animation techniques that are applied to this day,and transforming his animation studio to the empire it is today.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how walt disney was the first animation studio to do an animated feature film in the 1930s. he was discouraged by the cartoon business, but was able to build a name for his company that is well-known across the world.
- Explains that walt disney wanted to make a feature film done entirely in animation. the success of snow white set up the standards of what is seen today in animated movies.
- Explains that walt did not think he was going to make it in the animation industry much less become an international empire.
- Analyzes how walt disney was the first animation studio to do an animated feature film in the 1930s. he was discouraged by the cartoon business, but was able to build a name for his company that is well-known across the world.
- Explains that walt disney wanted to make a feature film done entirely in animation. the success of snow white set up the standards of what is seen today in animated movies.
- Explains that walt did not think he was going to make it in the animation industry much less become an international empire.
- Explains that disney invented the "multiplane" camera, which allowed for different levels of light that created a soft look that became the hallmark of the film.
- Explains that walt disney's company stands at one of the most recognized companies in the world. two hundred-forty million people have seen a disney movie.
- Analyzes the innovation in animation technique in "snow white and the seven dwarfs" (1937).
- Explains walt disney and his influence on the mass media. n.p., 1993.
- Describes walt's world of walt and animation innovation comments.
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