Zornado Disney and the Dialectic of Desire

Fantasy as Social Practice
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-62677-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zornado, Joseph

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: What is Fantasy?.- 2. Chapter Two: Capital, Crisis and the Rise of  Disney Fantasy.-  3. Chapter Three: Walt Disney,  Snow White,  and Trauma of the Real.- 4. Chapter Four:  Disney Fantasy  as the Discourse of the Other.- 5. Chapter Five: Disneyland and the Perversity of  Disney Fantasy.- 6. Chapter Six: Disney, Pixar, and Neoliberal Nostalgia.- 7. Chapter Seven: Conclusion:  The Empire Expands:  Star Wars  as  Disney Fantasy.

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph L. Zornado  is Professor of English at Rhode Island College, USA. He is the author of  Inventing the Child: Culture, Ideology, and the Story of Childhood  (2001/2007) and of a speculative fantasy in three volumes entitled  2050: A Future History , (2014).  He has also co-authored  Professional Writing for Social Work Practice  (2014) and  Professional Writing for the Criminal Justice System  (Springer 2017).