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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Mickey-Mouse This website told me all about when the nation first heard about Mickey Mouse.
14. Gibson, Chris. Mickey-Mouse.com. 20 March 2003. 16 Oct. 2003.
http://www.Mickey-Mouse.com. This website told me all about Mickey and his friends.
15. Oak, Manali. "Walt Disney History and Creations." Mickey Mouse Party Supplies. N.p., 7 June 2008. Web. 9 Oct. 2012.
<http://mickeymousepartysupplies.net/category/walt-disney>. This website was all about Walt Disney's creations, along with Mickey mouse, and a lot of the movies he made, too.
16. Polsson, Ken. "Chronology of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse." Islandnet.com: Index. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012.
<http://www.islandnet.com /~kpolsson/mmouse/>. This website was helpful because it told me the order in which Walt Disney made and produced Mickey Mouse.
17. Solomon, Charles. "The Golden Age of Mickey Mouse." The Walt Disney Family Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012.
<http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/familymuseum/exhibits/articles/mickeymousegoldenage/index.html>. This helped me because it explained all about the golden age of Mickey Mouse, when his fame was at its peak.
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2. Janet Wasko. “Understanding Disney”. Oxford, UK, Policy Press, 2001. This book really brought me into the world of Disney. It told me about the past present, and future of Disney and everything relating to Disney.
3. A. Bowdoin Van Riper. “Learning from Mickey, Donald, and Walt; Essays on Disney’s Edutainment Films”. North Carolina, USA, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2011. This book explained al the metaphors Disney hid in his movies and how they relate to the real world. He also explained how the changed us and how it affects us now.
4. Andi Stein. “Why we Love Disney: The Power of the Disney Brand”. New York, USA, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2011. This book told me all about the Disney Products and why we are so obsessed with them. It also explained why we are pretty much expected to love Disney.
5. Janet Wasko, Mark Phillips, Eileen R. Meehan. “Dazzled by Disney? The Global Disney Audiences Project”. London, UK, Leicester University Press, 2001. This book told me all about other countries and their roles in Disney. Most of the time it is the U.k., But sometimes it is in Japan or China.
6. Douglas Brode. “How Disney Created the Counterculture”. Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 2004. This book told me about all the things Disney went against. Some of the things were better and changed history in a positive way. Others were bad and became the negative things in our couture.
7. Jean-Noel Desmarais. “Once upon a time Walt Disney: The Sources of Inspiration for the Disney Studios”. Paris, France, Prestel Publishing Ltd., 2006. This book helped me because it told me all the things that inspired Walt Disney. It also told me all the artwork around the world that was inspired by Disney.
8. Leonard Maltin. “The Disney Films”. New York, New York, JessieFilm Ltd., 1983. This book helped me because it told me all about all the Disney movies that were made, not just the animated ones but all the movies.
9. M. Keith Booker. “Disney, Pixar, and the Hidden Messages of Children’s films”. Santa Barbra, California, ABC Clio, 2010. This book helped me because it told me all the hidden messages of Disney’s movies. There were hidden ideas, political stances, and much more.
10. "Frank & Ollie: Physical Animation." Frank & Ollie: Forward. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.frankanollie.com/PhysicalAnimation.html>. This website told me all about the principals of animation and what it took to make a good cartoon episode with Mickey Mouse.
11. “Justdisney.com” Justdisney.com. Chris Wingert, July 1999. Web. 19 Sept. 2012. http://justdisney.com/justdisney/about.html. This website really helped me learn a lot more about Walt Disney’s life. It gave me lots of information through a biography and it even had a filmography.
12. Cole, Michael. People to know: Walt Disney, Creator of Mickey Mouse.
13. Giroux, Henry. The Mouse that Roared. Oxford, England, Rowmans and Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 1999.
This book told me how Disney is a corporation that is influencing the world in a negative way. It is producing children as consuming subjects and changing them with their deeply conservative ways.
14. Bob Peterson in DVD extras, Monsters, Inc. (Docter, Unkrich and Silverman, 2001), Pixar, 2002. This short film helped me because it referenced to Mickey Mouse, saying that the people who made Mickey Mouse helped inspire the people who made Monsters, Inc.
15. Pixar: 20 Years of Animation, http://www.acmi.net.au/pixar.aspx. Web. 9 October 2012. This website helped me because it showed me the original sketches of Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters.
16. Karen Paik and Leslie Iwerks, To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2007. This book helped me because it talked about the improvements in the movies Pixar had made over the years, all stating with Mickey Mouse.
17. Ralph D. Stacey (ed.), Experiencing Emergence in Organizations: Local Interaction and the Emergence of Global Pattern, Routledge, London and New York, 2005. This book told me about the spread of Mickey Mouse all over the world. First it was in America and Europe, then it rapidly went everywhere around the world through television and newspapers.
18. Jose Fonseca, Complexity and Innovation in Originations, Routledge, London and New York, 2002. This book helped me because it told how movies and cartoons were getting better, more complex, and more advanced. It told me how this was good and bad in many ways.
19. John Kahrs in DVD Extras, The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004), Walt Disney Home Entertainment, 2005. This, like #14, was a film extra that told all about the making of the film, The Incredibles, and how all the things Walt Disney did with animation helped lead up to this.
20. Alan Bryman. The Disneyization of Society. London, England, SAGE Publications, 2004. This book helped me a lot. It told me about how Disney is affecting our culture and becoming a part of our society. There isn’t a kid in the world who doesn’t want to go to Disney world. Mickey Mouse has virtually changed the world as we see it.
20. J. P. Telotte. The Stereoscopic Mickey: Space, Animation, and the Mouse · VJPF 36(3):133- 140 (2008). This journal related Mickey to space exploration and other amazing things in ways that I never considered.
22. "Chronology of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse (1960-1984)." Islandnet.com: Index. Ken Polsson, 2006. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/mmouse/mick1960.htm>. This website helped me because it told me in chronological order the steps Walt Disney went through to make Mickey Mouse.
23. "History Of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse." Essortment Articles: Free Online Articles on Health, Science, Education & More... N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.essortment.com/history-walt-disneys-mickey-mouse-32642.html>. This website was an interview and it told me all about Walt Disney's thought process as he went and Mickey Mouse.
24. Kakutani, Michiko. "The Man Who Made Mouse Ears Famous." The New York Times. New York Times, 14 Nov. 2006. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/books/14kaku.html?scp=7&sq=walt+disney+mickey+mouse&st=nyt>. This website gives me all t he details about Walt Disney. It explains his childhood and also his later years.
25. "Mickey Mouse: “ Steamboat Willie” :: Mickey Mouse (cartoon Character) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia." Encyclopedia - Britannica Online Encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/380177/52580/An-illustration-from-Walt-Disneys-first-animated-sound-film-Steamboat>. This website helped me learn more about Mickey's first popular episode, Steamboat Willie. It told me what it was about and how it helped Mickey become famous. It also showed me the episode.
26. "Movie Animation History Articles, animation History Disney, Mickey Mouse History Articles, Donald Duck History Articles, Walt Disney Articles, Tarrytown History Article 1930." Old Magazine Articles. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Movie_History_Animation_History>. This website was really helpful because it gave me old magazine and newspaper articles that were all about Disney and Mickey Mouse.
27. Berkley Heights, NJ, Enslow Publishers, Inc. 1996. This book helped me because it told me in detail all about Walt Disney’s life. I learned more about his death, His life when he was younger, and all about the movies he made.
- “Google Image Result for http://gregd3.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/steamboat-willie-mickey-mouse.jpg." Google. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1696&bih=936&tbm=isch&tbnid=rhKE4mYzTJ4BXM:&imgrefurl=http://gregd3.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/mortimer-mouse/&docid=2EUif-A-LBg3HM&imgurl=http://gregd3.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/steamboat-willie-mickey-mou>. This website told me about Mickey mouse’s first cartoon, Steamboat Willie.
- 1937, Disney Studios was producing about 12 Mickey shorts a year, puns, Mickey's close association with children required that he always remain upstanding, with Disney himself providing the mouse's high-pitched voice. Mickey became a football hero, a hunter, a tailor, a symphony conductor. He accidentally sprayed himself with insecticide, rescued Pluto from the dogcatcher, crashed a car into a barn, enlisted in the army, and had his house repossessed. "A Brief History Of Mickey Mouse - TIME." Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews - TIME.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1859935,00.html>. This website told me about the evolution of the mouse, where at first Mickey wasn't well liked, and then he became an instant success.
- "History Of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse." a history of Walt Disney’s Mickey mouse. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <ttp://www.essortment.com/history-walt-disneys-mickey-mouse-32642.html>. This website explained to me all about Mickey and his life as a mouse.
- Im8pt. "The Main Mouse Is In The House." Mickey-Mouse.com WELCOME!. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.mickey-mouse.com/themouse.htm>. This website told me little known facts about Mickey Mouse and a background of his life as a cartoon.
- "Mickey Mouse History." Vex.Net. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.vex.net/~dq711/mickey_mouse.htm>. This website told me the steps Mickey went through to becoming one of the world’s most loved cartoons.
- "Walt Disney before Mickey Mouse." Walt Disney before Mickey Mouse. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <reader.eblib.com.ezproxy.rice.edu/%28S%28rvkn1qktgdcvidxeh0mdxixi%29%29/Reader.aspx?p=683914&o=1112&u=xdsSV86h6dw%3d&t=1349816338&h=F6FC9BB3FC62AD1DD1A5BFA8FE4EFE27A152E480&s=14319913&ut=3647&pg=1&r=img&c=-1&pat=n>. This website helped me because it explained all about Walt Disney before he was famous. He had a lot of brilliant ideas.
- Wilson, Euan, and originally. "Of Mice and Mood: Animation's History through a Socionomic Lens | Socionomics Institute." Socionomics Institute — Advancing the Study of Social Mood and Social Action. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.socionomics.net/free-reports/1008/of-mice-and-mood-animations-history-through-a-socionomic-lens.aspx>. This website explained to me how Mickey Mouse and most of the cartoon characters went from angry cartoons that no one liked to fun and happy cartoons that everyone loves
- "Mickey Mouse analysis." index. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://farrells.people.cofc.edu/Farrell/Mickey%20Mouse%20Analysis/MickeyMouseAnalysis.html?referrer=webcluster&>. This website told me how Mickey Mouse made Walt Disney famous.
- “Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse.” Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse. Shopwiki.com, 5 July 2003. Web. 19 Sept. 2012. http://www.angelfire.com/nj/MMania/ This website helped with all things Disney and told me a lot about what Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney did in their lives.
- Conner,
Michael. "This Old Mouse." The Austin Chronicle.(10
May 2002)
http://austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2002-05-10/screens_feature.html. This website told me all about how we have come to appreciate Mickey. - Disney Archives: Relive Disney's Remarkable and Memorable Past: Mickey Mouse. Disney Online. 16 October 2003. This website helped me because It told me all about the old Mickey Mouse shows.
- http://disney.go.com/vault/archives/characterstandard.html
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Mickey-Mouse This website told me all about when the nation first heard about Mickey Mouse.
14. Gibson, Chris. Mickey-Mouse.com. 20 March 2003. 16 Oct. 2003.
http://www.Mickey-Mouse.com. This website told me all about Mickey and his friends.
15. Oak, Manali. "Walt Disney History and Creations." Mickey Mouse Party Supplies. N.p., 7 June 2008. Web. 9 Oct. 2012.
<http://mickeymousepartysupplies.net/category/walt-disney>. This website was all about Walt Disney's creations, along with Mickey mouse, and a lot of the movies he made, too.
16. Polsson, Ken. "Chronology of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse." Islandnet.com: Index. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012.
<http://www.islandnet.com /~kpolsson/mmouse/>. This website was helpful because it told me the order in which Walt Disney made and produced Mickey Mouse.
17. Solomon, Charles. "The Golden Age of Mickey Mouse." The Walt Disney Family Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012.
<http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/familymuseum/exhibits/articles/mickeymousegoldenage/index.html>. This helped me because it explained all about the golden age of Mickey Mouse, when his fame was at its peak.
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- Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells. “From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture”. Indiana, USA, Indiand University Press, 1995.
2. Janet Wasko. “Understanding Disney”. Oxford, UK, Policy Press, 2001. This book really brought me into the world of Disney. It told me about the past present, and future of Disney and everything relating to Disney.
3. A. Bowdoin Van Riper. “Learning from Mickey, Donald, and Walt; Essays on Disney’s Edutainment Films”. North Carolina, USA, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2011. This book explained al the metaphors Disney hid in his movies and how they relate to the real world. He also explained how the changed us and how it affects us now.
4. Andi Stein. “Why we Love Disney: The Power of the Disney Brand”. New York, USA, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2011. This book told me all about the Disney Products and why we are so obsessed with them. It also explained why we are pretty much expected to love Disney.
5. Janet Wasko, Mark Phillips, Eileen R. Meehan. “Dazzled by Disney? The Global Disney Audiences Project”. London, UK, Leicester University Press, 2001. This book told me all about other countries and their roles in Disney. Most of the time it is the U.k., But sometimes it is in Japan or China.
6. Douglas Brode. “How Disney Created the Counterculture”. Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 2004. This book told me about all the things Disney went against. Some of the things were better and changed history in a positive way. Others were bad and became the negative things in our couture.
7. Jean-Noel Desmarais. “Once upon a time Walt Disney: The Sources of Inspiration for the Disney Studios”. Paris, France, Prestel Publishing Ltd., 2006. This book helped me because it told me all the things that inspired Walt Disney. It also told me all the artwork around the world that was inspired by Disney.
8. Leonard Maltin. “The Disney Films”. New York, New York, JessieFilm Ltd., 1983. This book helped me because it told me all about all the Disney movies that were made, not just the animated ones but all the movies.
9. M. Keith Booker. “Disney, Pixar, and the Hidden Messages of Children’s films”. Santa Barbra, California, ABC Clio, 2010. This book helped me because it told me all the hidden messages of Disney’s movies. There were hidden ideas, political stances, and much more.
10. "Frank & Ollie: Physical Animation." Frank & Ollie: Forward. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.frankanollie.com/PhysicalAnimation.html>. This website told me all about the principals of animation and what it took to make a good cartoon episode with Mickey Mouse.
11. “Justdisney.com” Justdisney.com. Chris Wingert, July 1999. Web. 19 Sept. 2012. http://justdisney.com/justdisney/about.html. This website really helped me learn a lot more about Walt Disney’s life. It gave me lots of information through a biography and it even had a filmography.
12. Cole, Michael. People to know: Walt Disney, Creator of Mickey Mouse.
13. Giroux, Henry. The Mouse that Roared. Oxford, England, Rowmans and Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 1999.
This book told me how Disney is a corporation that is influencing the world in a negative way. It is producing children as consuming subjects and changing them with their deeply conservative ways.
14. Bob Peterson in DVD extras, Monsters, Inc. (Docter, Unkrich and Silverman, 2001), Pixar, 2002. This short film helped me because it referenced to Mickey Mouse, saying that the people who made Mickey Mouse helped inspire the people who made Monsters, Inc.
15. Pixar: 20 Years of Animation, http://www.acmi.net.au/pixar.aspx. Web. 9 October 2012. This website helped me because it showed me the original sketches of Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters.
16. Karen Paik and Leslie Iwerks, To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2007. This book helped me because it talked about the improvements in the movies Pixar had made over the years, all stating with Mickey Mouse.
17. Ralph D. Stacey (ed.), Experiencing Emergence in Organizations: Local Interaction and the Emergence of Global Pattern, Routledge, London and New York, 2005. This book told me about the spread of Mickey Mouse all over the world. First it was in America and Europe, then it rapidly went everywhere around the world through television and newspapers.
18. Jose Fonseca, Complexity and Innovation in Originations, Routledge, London and New York, 2002. This book helped me because it told how movies and cartoons were getting better, more complex, and more advanced. It told me how this was good and bad in many ways.
19. John Kahrs in DVD Extras, The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004), Walt Disney Home Entertainment, 2005. This, like #14, was a film extra that told all about the making of the film, The Incredibles, and how all the things Walt Disney did with animation helped lead up to this.
20. Alan Bryman. The Disneyization of Society. London, England, SAGE Publications, 2004. This book helped me a lot. It told me about how Disney is affecting our culture and becoming a part of our society. There isn’t a kid in the world who doesn’t want to go to Disney world. Mickey Mouse has virtually changed the world as we see it.
20. J. P. Telotte. The Stereoscopic Mickey: Space, Animation, and the Mouse · VJPF 36(3):133- 140 (2008). This journal related Mickey to space exploration and other amazing things in ways that I never considered.
22. "Chronology of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse (1960-1984)." Islandnet.com: Index. Ken Polsson, 2006. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/mmouse/mick1960.htm>. This website helped me because it told me in chronological order the steps Walt Disney went through to make Mickey Mouse.
23. "History Of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse." Essortment Articles: Free Online Articles on Health, Science, Education & More... N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.essortment.com/history-walt-disneys-mickey-mouse-32642.html>. This website was an interview and it told me all about Walt Disney's thought process as he went and Mickey Mouse.
24. Kakutani, Michiko. "The Man Who Made Mouse Ears Famous." The New York Times. New York Times, 14 Nov. 2006. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/books/14kaku.html?scp=7&sq=walt+disney+mickey+mouse&st=nyt>. This website gives me all t he details about Walt Disney. It explains his childhood and also his later years.
25. "Mickey Mouse: “ Steamboat Willie” :: Mickey Mouse (cartoon Character) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia." Encyclopedia - Britannica Online Encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/380177/52580/An-illustration-from-Walt-Disneys-first-animated-sound-film-Steamboat>. This website helped me learn more about Mickey's first popular episode, Steamboat Willie. It told me what it was about and how it helped Mickey become famous. It also showed me the episode.
26. "Movie Animation History Articles, animation History Disney, Mickey Mouse History Articles, Donald Duck History Articles, Walt Disney Articles, Tarrytown History Article 1930." Old Magazine Articles. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Movie_History_Animation_History>. This website was really helpful because it gave me old magazine and newspaper articles that were all about Disney and Mickey Mouse.
27. Berkley Heights, NJ, Enslow Publishers, Inc. 1996. This book helped me because it told me in detail all about Walt Disney’s life. I learned more about his death, His life when he was younger, and all about the movies he made.