Mickey’s Trailer and Environmental Thought: Disney Cartoons and Countryside
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Mickey’s Trailer and Environmental Thought : Disney Cartoons and Countryside. / Goddard, Joseph.
In: American Studies in Scandinavia, Vol. 48:2, No. 2016:2, 2016, p. 43-60.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Mickey’s Trailer and Environmental Thought
T2 - Disney Cartoons and Countryside
AU - Goddard, Joseph
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The influence of popular cartoons on environmental cognition is explored in this essay through readings of Mickey’s Trailer, a 1938 cartoon directed by Ben Sharpsteen for Walt Disney. Other materials considered include Ford Motor Company’s 1937-38 film coproduced by Wilder Pictures, Glacier International Park, which promotes motor-tourism and automobile ownership, and Ben Sharpsteen’s other work for Walt Disney. The article also examines the ideas of physical and “illusional” zoning in the city, especially the way that they were applied in the mid-twentieth century. Physical zoning involved separating incompatible land uses, whereas illusional zoning entailed seeing what you wanted to see. What does Mickey’s Trailer say about how people can live, and can it inform where people choose to live? The essay muses that appreciations of nature and the environment are influenced by popular culture.
AB - The influence of popular cartoons on environmental cognition is explored in this essay through readings of Mickey’s Trailer, a 1938 cartoon directed by Ben Sharpsteen for Walt Disney. Other materials considered include Ford Motor Company’s 1937-38 film coproduced by Wilder Pictures, Glacier International Park, which promotes motor-tourism and automobile ownership, and Ben Sharpsteen’s other work for Walt Disney. The article also examines the ideas of physical and “illusional” zoning in the city, especially the way that they were applied in the mid-twentieth century. Physical zoning involved separating incompatible land uses, whereas illusional zoning entailed seeing what you wanted to see. What does Mickey’s Trailer say about how people can live, and can it inform where people choose to live? The essay muses that appreciations of nature and the environment are influenced by popular culture.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 48:2
SP - 43
EP - 60
JO - American Studies in Scandinavia
JF - American Studies in Scandinavia
SN - 0044-8060
IS - 2016:2
ER -
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