About the Book: How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney
Comic
First published in 1971, How to Read Donald Duck shocked readers by revealing
how capitalist ideology operates in our most beloved cartoons. Having survived
bonfires, impounding and being dumped into the ocean by the Chilean army, this
controversial book is once again back on our shelves. Written and published
during the blossoming of Salvador Allendes revolutionary socialism, the book
examines how Disney comics not only reflect capitalist ideology, but are active
agents working in this ideologys favour. Focusing on the hapless mice and ducks
of Disney, curiously parentless, marginalised and always short