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I call him to account for his debasement of the traditional literature of childhood, in films and in the books he publishes: He shows scant respect for the integrity of the original creations of authors, manipulating and vulgarizing everything for his own ends. His treatment of folklore is without regard for its anthropological, spiritual, or psychological truths. Every story is sacrificed to the "gimmick". . . of animation. . . Not content with the films, he fixes these mutilated versions in books which are cut to a fraction of their original forms, illustrates them with garish pictures, in which every prince looks like a badly drawn portrait of Cary Grant, every princess a sex symbol (Hearne, 1997, 137).

Walt Disney himself is long gone, but the company he founded continues and follows the same path. The recent film Beauty and the Beast (1992) is an example in which the true beauty of the original story is lost in a sea of garish imagery, childish characterizations, and the perpetuation of certain media stereotypes about love, beauty, and social acceptance. Critics find that the Disneyfication of popular culture extends beyond Disney and reflects a pattern of treating the audience as mindless. In time, these critics charge, the audience does indeed become mindless after exposure to this constant dumbing-down of culture.

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difference between those versions says something about the fantasy element as promulgated in the film, however unintentionally. The theatrical release of the film contained some lyrics in the opening song that Arab groups saw as prejudiced, and the company acquiesced and changed the lyrics for the video release and all subsequent releases. Yet, the film depends greatly on certain ideas about Arabia, stereotypes from earlier films more than from any examination of the real Arabia, historical or otherwise. Movies deal very much in shared fantasies. One way of seeing that there has been a shared vision is when a film becomes a big hit at the box office, as did Aladdin. This shows, after all, that many people are going to see it and sharing in the communication process it embodies. The film was less successful than the previous year's Beauty and the Beast from the same company, but it was successful enough to show a shared world view on the part of a large number of its viewers. Clearly, the film was speaking to something in these people and fulfilling some communication need within them. The popularity of the film shows that it plays on shared fantasies. The settings for this film are the desert, exotic bazaar
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