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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/04/2026

Vicky Osterweil's *Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World* makes the kind of polemical, startling, illuminating argument that defines great criticism; it's the sort of book that encapsulates the reasons I read criticism: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2525-t... 1/

The Haymarket Books cover for Vicky Osterweil's 'The Extended Universe.'

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/04/2026

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/04/28/m... 2/

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Mary Grace Scary Face @emgeekay.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The best book I read about Disney was "How to Read Donald Duck" by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart. www.orbooks.com/catalog/how-...

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How to Read Donald Duck

First published in 1971 in Chile, where the entire third printing was dumped into the ocean by the Chilean Navy and bonfires were held to destroy earlier editions, How to Read Donald Duck reveals the ...

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