Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Early Years, 1928-1931 -- Steamboat Willie -- "Steamboat Billie" / Walt Disney Cartoon / Real Entertainment -- The Barn Dance / Draughtsman . . . Walt Disney -- Mickey Mouse -- The Cinema (excerpt) -- An International Language: The Animated Cartoon (excerpt) -- Miraculous Mickey -- On Mickey Mouse -- Regulated Rodent -- The Only Unpaid Movie Star -- You Can See Mickey Mouse Dancing . . . -- "Mickey Mouse": How He Was Born -- Mickey-Mouse Maker -- 2. Into the Realm of High Art, 1932-1933 -- Mickey Mouse and American Art -- Mickey Mouse: He Stays on the Job -- An Artist of Our Time: Walter E. Disney, 1901- -- He Gave Us Mickey Mouse -- Notes on the Art of Mickey Mouse and His Creator Walt Disney -- Mickey Mouse Invades Gallery -- Mickey Mouse Goes to Hollywood-How Young Artist Tamed His Models -- Mickey Mouse, Big Bad Wolf Reach Walls of Art Museum -- 3. "You're the Top," 1934-1935 -- The Life Story of Mickey Mouse -- Mickey and Minnie -- Mickey Mouse's Financial Career -- Mickey Mouse -- Mickey Mouse Makes the Britannica -- Mickey Mouse Emerges as Economist -- Mickey Mouse at the Gaumont-Palace -- Mickey Mouse Is 7 Years Old Today -- Fox, Disney Add to Museum Film Group -- 4. Glory Days in Color, 1936-1939 -- "Mickey Mouse" Is Eight Years Old: Disney's Squeaky Star Played to 468,000,000 in 1935 -- L'Affaire Mickey Mouse -- Walt Disney, M.S., M.A. -- Mickey Mouse Celebrates His Tenth Birthday . . . By Capturing a Giant -- A Tale of Six -- 5. World War II into the Seventies, 1941-1977 -- New British Army Slang Less Colorful Than Old -- "Mickey Mouse" Was Invasion Password -- That Million-Dollar Mouse -- What Mickey Means to Me -- Mickey Mouse and How He Grew -- I Live with a Genius-a Conversation with Mrs. Walt Disney (excerpt).

Of Mouse and Man, or Mickey Reaches 25: Time Has Slowed His Step, But Walt Disney's Remarkable Rodent Has Come Smiling through Depression, Wars, A-bombs and H-Bombs -- Vox Bop (excerpt) -- . . . on the Navy -- 6. The Nostalgia Begins, 1978-1989 -- Growing Up with Mickey -- A Mouse for All Seasons -- Modern Museum Celebrates Mickey -- Le Grand Charlie et le Petit Mickey -- Mickey Mouse Meets Konrad Lorenz -- We Are Mickey: Meet the Men behind the Mouse -- Mickey Mouse's Age -- The Masks of Mickey Mouse -- 7. Into a New Millennium, 1991-2012 -- The Mystery of Mickey Mouse -- Mickey, A Mouse of Influence around the World -- The Mickey in Macy's Window: Childhood, Consumerism, and Disney Animation -- An American Icon Scampers In for a Makeover -- Who Is He? -- The Meaning of Mickey Mouse -- Through the Years We'll All Be Friends: The "Mickey Mouse Club," Consumerism, and the Cultural Consensus -- "New" Mickey: Big Cheese of "MouseWorks": Animators Look to the Past to Liven Up the Personality of Disney's Star Rodent for a Cartoon Series Starting Saturday -- M-I-C-K-E-Y: He's the Leader of the Brand -- Disney Presents Mickey Mouse, Again: Media Giant Pushes to Make Cartoon Rodent Hip -- Can Disney Build a Better Mickey Mouse? -- Secrets of Steamboat Willie -- More Secrets of Steamboat Willie -- Mickey Mouse -- Mock of Mickey Is Pure Evil: Disney's Daughter Rips Hamas Over Monster Mouse -- Mickey Mouse Appears on Poster Atop a Nude Woman's Body beneath a Swastika -- Egyptian Christian Faces Trial for Insulting Islam -- Appendices -- A. Le Cinéma (excerpt) -- B. Un langage international: le dessin animé (excerpt) -- C. Zu Micki Maus -- D. Sie sehen Micky Mäuse tanzen . . . -- E. Mickey Mouse -- F. Mickey Mouse au Gaumont-Palace -- Bibliography -- Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O.

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