Disney And The Dialectic Of Desire: Fantasy As Social Practice
by Joseph Zornado /
2017 / English / PDF
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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
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 toDisney fantasy
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 neoliberal nostalgia in crisis. The study ends
with a reading of George Lucas as latter-day Disney and
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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 neoliberal nostalgia in crisis. The study ends
with a reading of George Lucas as latter-day Disney andStar
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Disney fantasy. This study should appeal to
film and media studies college undergraduates, graduates students
and scholars interested in Disney.
. This study should appeal to
film and media studies college undergraduates, graduates students
and scholars interested in Disney.
