The Extended Universe

Auteur

Vicky Osterweil is a writer, organizer, and brick-mason based in Philadelphia. Her first book, In Defense of Looting, was an account of historical struggles for liberation in the United States. She is currently the in-house film critic for AJ+, and cohosts a popular movie review podcast, Cerise and Vicky Rank the Movies.

She has written about the intersections of film, politics and culture for a variety of outlets, including The Paris Review, Art in America, Al Jazeera America, The Baffler, Dissent, Lux Magazine, and The New Inquiry, where she was also a culture editor for many years. Her series on the political economy and cultural role of videogames, "Well Played," which ran in Real Life Magazine from 2019-2020, won her the Blogger of the Year award from prestigious video game criticism outlet Critical Distance.

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**A sweeping history of Disney's rise to cultural dominance that pulls all the skeletons from the corporate closet and playfully decodes the hidden political messages in all of your favorite childhood movies.

In The Extended Universe, Vicky Osterweil takes us on a quest to discover the black magic by which Disney has successfully made its image synonymous with not only youthful splendor, but pop culture itself. Their "imagineers" have made it impossible to reflect on the wonders of growing up without immediately thinking of Disney's movies, Disney's amusement parks, and various other bits and bobs of related Disney merchandising. What Osterweil unearths are reactionary political commitments and maleficent legal maneuvers-from fighting to protect the patent on the COVID vaccine, to breaking early efforts at an animator's union-so cartoonishly evil they would make one of Walt's own animated villains blush.

Along the way, Osterweil braids together Disney's corporate history, an economic accounting of capitalism's dependency on IP, and deeply engaging (and not entirely unsympathetic) analysis of some of Disney's most famous movies, including Snow White, The Lion King (animated and live action!), Black Panther, and more. The result is an entertainingly woven and convincing case that Disney's entire business model has been built upon a ruthless and fanatical defense of intellectual property rights-from Steamboat Willie to Infinity Wars and beyond!

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Introduction



 Chapter 1: Mickey Mouse Wants You To Get COVID



 Chapter 2: Endgame



 Chapter 3: Whistle While You Work



 Chapter 4:The Fairest of Them All



 Chapter 5: Reanimating the Plantation



 Chapter 6: Think Happy Thoughts



 Chapter 7: I Just Can’t Wait To Be King



 Chapter 8: You Wouldn’t Download A Pirate Ship



 Chapter 9: The Mouse Is The Real Chef



 Chapter 10: The Universe Extends



 Chapter 11: The Empire Must Be Defended



 Chapter 12: Wakanda Forever



 Chapter 13: A Small World After All



 Chapter 14: Deja Vu