Disney Animation: Global Diffusion and Local Appropriation of Culture

Children’s media products reflect the cultural values of their producers and the social, political and economic conditions under which they were produced. Watching an animated feature, therefore, cannot be regarded as an innocent and simple act of consumption. It rather involves a complex process of...

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Main Author: Souad Belkhyr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université des Antilles 2013-08-01
Series:Études Caribéennes
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/5863
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description Children’s media products reflect the cultural values of their producers and the social, political and economic conditions under which they were produced. Watching an animated feature, therefore, cannot be regarded as an innocent and simple act of consumption. It rather involves a complex process of coding/decoding and appropriating cultural meanings. The relation between structured patterns of communication under globalization, on one hand, and the local conditions under which Disney cartoon products are marketed and consumed in the Arab world, on the other, can be understood as the main axis of globalized diffusion and local appropriation of American cultural values and lifestyle among Arab societies.
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title Disney Animation: Global Diffusion and Local Appropriation of Culture
title_full Disney Animation: Global Diffusion and Local Appropriation of Culture
title_fullStr Disney Animation: Global Diffusion and Local Appropriation of Culture
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title_short Disney Animation: Global Diffusion and Local Appropriation of Culture
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globalization
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