Joseph Zornado

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 cr… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-319-62677-2
EAN: 9783319626772
Produktnummer: 24515103
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'325 KB

Über den Autor

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).