Disney and the Dialectic of Desire

Disney and the Dialectic of Desire

by Joseph Zornado
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 18/11/2017

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This book analyzes Walt Disney’s impact on entertainment, new media, and consumer culture in terms of a materialist, psychoanalytic approach to fantasy. The study opens with a taxonomy of narrative fantasy along with a discussion of fantasy as a key concept within psychoanalytic discourse. Zornado reads Disney’s full-length animated features of the “golden era” as symbolic responses to cultural and personal catastrophe, and presents Disneyland as a monument to Disney fantasy and one man’s singular, perverse desire. What follows after is a discussion of the “second golden age” of Disney and the rise of Pixar Animation as neoliberalnostalgia in crisis. The study ends with a reading of George Lucas as latter-day Disney and Star Wars as Disney fantasy. This study should appeal to film and media studies college undergraduates, graduates students and scholars interested in Disney.

ISBN:
9783319626772
9783319626772
Category:
Films
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
18-11-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing

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