Rough Draft of Micky Mouse Monopoly

Outline for Rhetoric Analysis on “Mickey Mouse Monopoly”
* Introduction
* Background
* Understanding Disney as a monopoly is why many people do not consider Disney a monopoly until they conduct some conducive research regarding the company’s influence.
* Disney should be further understood as an entity that can foster, tarnish, and reshape cultures based on the content it portrays.
* Author’s Purpose: An intensive understanding of Disney’s impact on society, primarily through children, will affect entire generations.
* Thesis Statement: Disney has influenced upcoming generations with its influence taking hold and altering society according to how it sees fit, a factor that should be heavily discussed.
* Body Paragraphs
* Summary
* Beginning: Giving an insight to the reader regarding Disney’s reach in society and how it continues to impact the media industry by portraying innocence.
* Middle part: Using various examples that show how Disney’s influence is vast such as its dominance in the media industry. Consequentially, the inaccurate, misogynistic, and racist portrayal emphasized in Disney continues to sell its image of innocence.
* Ending: Creating an argument regarding how Disney inadvertently brainwashes society as it commercializes its products. This commercialization thereby eliminates Disney’s innocence and makes it a force to reckon with.
* Conclusion
* Disney has used various stereotypical and false opinions to cement their views and ideologies in society. For example, when explaining Disney’s impacts, children are asked questions about specific questions.
* Finalizing with a summary of the different views that are being emphasized in the paper.
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Rhetoric Analysis on “Mickey Mouse Monopoly”
Introduction
‘‘Mickey Mouse Monopoly’’ is a documentary written and produced by Chyng Feng Sun, and narrated by Monique Fordham. The documentary takes a close and critical look at the world Disney films create and the stories they tell about race, gender and class. The video further analyzes Disney’s cultural pedagogy, examines its corporate power, and explores its vast influence on the global culture. Disney is one of the oldest companies considering that it was formed in 1923 and producing its first movie, snow-white, and the seven dwarfs, in 1937. Since its founding, Disney has specialized in making kid-friendly movies, most of which seem to be entirely innocent. However, much of it seems innocent to children; only when an adult read into the movie do, they understand the various hidden aspects and meaning found in many of Disney’s movies. For example, a film such as Pocahontas has changed and reshaped history-making Europeans less brutal than the actual events. Through this “innocence,” Disney has gained the capacity to have a lasting impact on the upcoming generations since they are the majority consumers of the company’s content. To this capacity, Disney has derelict its duty as entertainers and society’s guardians in terms of its displays. Through appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos, Disney has influenced upc...