Walt Disney
Books | Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
4.2
(137)
Neal Gabler
ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney. Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films–most notably Snow White, Fantasia, and Bambi. In his superb biography, Neal Gabler shows us how, over the course of two decades, Disney revolutionized the entertainment industry. In a way that was unprecedented and later widely imitated, he built a synergistic empire that combined film, television, theme parks, music, book publishing, and merchandise. Walt Disney is a revelation of both the work and the man–of both the remarkable accomplishment and the hidden life. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and USA Today Biography of the Year
AD
Buy now:
More Details:
Author
Neal Gabler
Pages
912
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2007-10-09
ISBN
0679757473 9780679757474
Ratings
Google: 4
Community ReviewsSee all
"I loved the amount of information in this book. I actually broke down and got the audible version which made it more manageable. As far as my favorite book so far was “Disney Wars”."
Bill Mitchell
"Very well written and incredibly thorough, this book does a good job of showing Walt Disney as a person; not a villain and not a saint, but like the rest of us, a flawed human who did some amazing things."
John Detrick