We see him reimagine the amusement park with Disneyland, prompting critics to coin the word Disneyfication to describe the process by which reality can be modified to fit one's personal desires. It was Disney, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films – most notably Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi – who transformed animation from a novelty based on movement to an art form that presented an illusion of life. We see the visionary, whose desire for escape honed an innate sense of what people wanted to see on the screen and, when combined with iron determination and obsessive perfectionism, led him to the reinvention of animation. Gabler shows us the young Walt Disney breaking free of a heartland childhood of discipline and deprivation and making his way to Hollywood. Seven years in the making and meticulously researched – Gabler is the first writer to be given complete access to the Disney archives – this is the full story of a man whose work left an ineradicable brand on our culture but whose life has largely been enshrouded in myth.
From Neal Gabler, the definitive portrait of one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American entertainment and cultural history.
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