Once seen as a harmless purveyor of home-spun, patriotic values, Walt Disney is now looked upon as the product of a world riddled with inequality and culturally sanctioned oppression.
Those children became parents, and they, in turn, introduced their children to the studio’s output, and on and on it went.įor a start, the modern-day producer heirs of Disney would be appalled at the views of their founder. As it happened, children loved Disney films. In the past, Disney had a simple enough business strategy aimed at children with respect to its movies: It was about well-made films for all the family. is foregrounding an agenda that rejects the traditional values espoused by its founder, Walt Disney. That is because the present Walt Disney Co.
A word once synonymous with wholesome family entertainment has today a wholly different ring.