Walt's Not-So-Wonderful World

摘要

It is hard not to lionize Walt Disney. Perhaps no man has so changed popular culture or more embodied the American dream. He revolutionized the entertainment industry, both in creating the first cartoon that combined sound and picture and by using TV to promote a theme park that would become a national obsession. But in biographer Neal Gabler's impeccably researched if somewhat plodding Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, a different picture of Disney also emerges-a distant and often despotic leader who became something of a figurehead, often dependent on others to turn out the later animated films that bore his name.