Description: Collected interviews and profiles spanning Walt Disney's career reveal a complex visionary whose impact on animation, live-action film, television, and theme parks has never been equaled.
Brief description: Kathy Merlock Jackson is professor and coordinator of communications at Virginia Wesleyan College. Her works include Walt Disney: A Bio-Bibliography and Images of Children in American Film: A Socio-Cultural Analysis. She has also been published in the Journal of Popular Culture, the Journal of American Culture, and the Journal of Popular Film and Television. She lives in Virginia Beach.