The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the WorldA provocative history of Disneys rise to cultural dominance, pulling skeletons from the corporate closet to decode the political messages hidden in all of your favorite childhood movies. In The Extended Universe, Vicky Osterweil takes us on a quest to discover how Disneys imagineers have made it impossible to reflect on the wonders of growing up without thinking of Disney's movies, amusement parks, and merchandising. Drawing on extensive interviews

deeply flavorful

”—Liesl Schillinger

and hopes of an escape…

"This is demanding prose that scrapes at the bones of psychic worlds

and finds himself suddenly overcome with the peculiar notion that he can do anything

Springer commissioned a one-block cartoon of a petite blonde with a predilection for rich men

Wouldn’t you like to be lifted up and out of yourself into a sheer feeling of aliveness

Sharing meals and conversations and an eventful trip to Nara

Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and disappearances

His first book

Lavish salons

and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so