The Saber and Scroll Journal Volume 8, Number 2, Winter 2019 | Page 80

Mickey Mouse and Merry Melodies: Ho
Entertained and Inspired Americ
机时 , 卡通动画开始慢慢出现代。两大动画集团 — 迪士尼和其动画制作能力能迎合多数受十年里建立了一个 ( 动画 ) 标准只小猪》和《猪小弟的春日种植等动画短片在娱乐大众的同时全美上下感受到的无助和恐惧成就 , 绝大多数适合家庭观看笑话提供了理由 , 另一些则揶闻。当华纳兄弟与迪士尼发生球影业时常打趣迪士尼的卡通画制作商发行的成百上千的卡现实的千万美国人提供了廉价且
关键词 : 米老鼠 , 华特 · 迪士黄金时代 , 环球影业 , 富兰克《乐一通》 , 《梅里小旋律》 ,
《幸运兔奥斯华》 , 猪小弟 , 米
Popular culture’s ability to thrive
and grow during times of national
hardship is clearly reflected in animated
feature films and shorts during
America’s Great Depression from 1929
to 1939. This decade forever changed
the economy and overhauled what it
meant to achieve the American dream.
There was a notable shift in American
culture, which seemed to favor popular
culture over high culture and “endorsed
a commoner’s version of American
ideals.” 1 During this decade, popular
culture grew on a larger national scale
because of its reliance on showing the
“importance of the little folk and the
greatness of the American way of life”
amid national hardship. 2 It was the lowest
point in the history of the nation’s
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