Mickey Mouse Monopoly

Wednesday Night Film Series
星期三晚放映系列

Mickey Mouse Monopoly
Disney, Childhood, and Corporate Power
A video by Chyng Feng Sun & Miguel Picker
(runtime: 52 min., in english with chinese subtitles)

米奇老鼠的壟斷
迪士尼，童年及企業霸權
孫菁芬(音譯)及米切爾碧加之錄像作品
（片長五十二分鐘，英語對白及片上中文字幕）

Showplace:
Video Power
Flat A, 8/F., Yiu Chung Building,
368 Portland Street, Mongkok
ShowTime:

8:00 p.m., 3 August 2005 (Wednesday)

放映地點:

錄影力量

旺角砵蘭街368號耀中大廈8樓8A室

放映時間:

二零零五年八月三日晚上八時正

Jointly presented by Wednesday Night Films Series and Video Power
星期三晚放映系列及錄影力量協辦

Disney is coming to town with promises to transform the shadowy bay into a sunny bay, light up the starry sky with displays of fireworks, and build their castle on top, which will cover up a historic site….should we hop on the Mickey Express to the Wonderland of Fantasia or should we hold on to the (explicit) culture of our own panorama?

伴隨着迪士尼的登陸，陰澳將被轉換成欣澳，五光十色的煙花將取代夜空的繁星，盛載着歷史的土地亦將被他們新建的堡壘淹蓋，我們是否就此跳上直通夢幻異域的米奇快車，還是應緊握我們獨特的文化全景呢？

About the film:
有關本片：

The Walt Disney Company is a powerful force in creating childhood culture all over the world. Presenting a worldview based on innocence, magic, and fun, its products are endorsed by parents and teachers, and are enthusiastically embraced by children.

以其強而有力的企業力量，和路迪士尼不斷在世界各地創造着兒童文化。他所展示出的一個彷彿是天真、魔幻及歡樂的世界觀，使其產品廣為家長及教師認同及深受兒童所愛戴。

Mickey Mouse Monopoly takes a close and critical look at the world these films create and the stories they tell about race, gender and class and reaches disturbing conclusions about the values propagated under the guise of innocence and fun. This daring video insightfully analyzes Disney's cultural pedagogy, examines its corporate power, and explores its vast influence on our global culture. Mickey Mouse Monopoly will provoke audiences to confront comfortable assumptions about an American institution that is virtually synonymous with childhood pleasure.

《米奇老鼠的壟斷》深入迪士尼電影的世界，透視這世界所創造的故事裡，各種有關種族，性別及階級的說法，發現了隱含在天真及歡樂的表象底下，它們正推廣着一整套令人極度不安的價值觀。本片大胆地分析了迪士尼的文化滲透、企業霸權及其對全球文化的深廣影響。《米奇老鼠的壟斷》將使觀眾需重新審視這個似乎代表着童年歡樂的美式建制機構。

About the Wednesday Night Film Series:

關於星期三晚放映系列：

The Wednesday Night Film Series is a free monthly showing of films, videos, and documentaries open to all. Our aim is to create discussion around the issues of neo-liberalism, capitalism, resistance, and alternatives in the run-up to the WTO ministerial in Hong Kong in December 2005...

星期三晚放映系列為一個公開及免費的每月電影、錄像及紀錄片放映系列活動。由現在至本年度十二月於香港舉行之世界貿易組織部長級會議，我們希望籍此放映系列引發有關新自由主義、資本主義以至有關之反抗及不同選擇的討論……

We will not be your guides, but we will give you our hands, to consummate without neglect and share with you another view of the present, and another vision of the future. Come and join our regular film screenings and discussions- what we have in store for you is one big NO to neo-liberalism and many yeses to you the peoples.

我們不會成為你/妳的導引，但我們將伸出我們雙手，希望與你/妳分享另一個對現在觀察及成就另一個對將來的想像。請參與我們的定期放映及討論─我們為你/妳準備了一個對新自由主義的特大交叉，還有對你/妳及其他人民的眾多確認和肯定。

And for those of you who cannot make it to our screenings, we can try to co-ordinate a screening for your own group/friends/family. Just get in touch with us to make arrangements -we welcome you to join us in our endeavour to resist neo-liberal economic globalisation.

未能抽空參與我們安排的放映的朋友們亦可嘗試主動安排你們的團體/友群/家庭的小組放映。並請與我們聯絡安排有關的放映細節。我們歡迎你們對抗衡新全球經濟自由化的積極主動參與。

Contact聯絡:

narcissan@operamail.com, ptiwari@netvigator.com

Online information 線上資料：

http://www.worldtradedoff.blogspot.com/

Further Reading:延伸閱讀：

http://disneygp.no-ip.org/

http://www.mediaed.org/videos/CommercialismPoliticsAndMedia/MickeyMouseMonopoly