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 Paper Tiger TV,
USA, 1989,
28 min.
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Yet another Belgian family !
Commissioned by Paper
Tiger TV, the dissident Smurf Mark Dion analyses the
Smurf community, originally created by a Belgian
cartoonist. A sarcastic voyage of exploration through the
hierarchical nature of Smurfland. It is not cleanliness
that is propagated here, as in Une Journée dans une
Famille Belge, but rather the masked ideological
undertone of Smurfland that is exposed. Smurfonomics, the
toy industry and economy in childland are
fully reviewed. This is followed by a playful analysis :
how are political value judgements, ideological premises
and stereotypes presented to children ? And : "Why
is there only one woman in Smurfland?" |
