Disney and the Dialectic of Desire
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Disney and the Dialectic of Desire

Fantasy as Social Practice

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Disney and the Dialectic of Desire

Fantasy as Social Practice

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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 neoliberal nostalgia 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.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
ISBN
9783319626772
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Contents
  3. Chapter 1 Introduction: What Is Fantasy?
  4. Chapter 2 Capital, Crisis, and the Rise of Disney Fantasy
  5. Chapter 3 Walt Disney, Snow White, and the Trauma of the Real
  6. Chapter 4 Disney Fantasy as the Discourse of the Other
  7. Chapter 5 Disneyland and the Perversity of Disney Fantasy
  8. Chapter 6 Disney, Pixar, and Neoliberal Nostalgia
  9. Chapter 7 Conclusion: The Empire Expands—Star Wars as Disney Fantasy
  10. Index