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The Disney Fetish.
Title:
The Disney Fetish.
Author:
Harrington, Seán J.
ISBN:
9780861969081
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (241 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: The Homunculus -- Chapter 1 A Theoretical Context -- Chapter 2 Psycho-mythology -- Walt Disney -- Alice in Cartoon-land -- Chapter 3 The Phallus and Disney Animation -- Oswald the Lucky Rabbit -- Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, the Ego Ideal and the Id -- Steamboat Willy -- The Duck -- Analysis -- Chapter 4 The Conceptual Homunculus -- Fetishism -- Anality and Rivalry in the Silly Symphonies series -- Part Two: The Regressive Apparatus -- Chapter 5 Disney Character Tropes -- Mass Appeal and Regression -- A Disney Apparatus -- Snow White -- Disney Character Tropes -- Chapter 6 The Industrial Process and the Father -- A Lexicon of Regression -- Absent Fathers: Disney and the Real Boy -- Malevolence and the Castrating Fathers -- Threat to the Homuncule Body -- Chapter 7 Fantasia and Eroticism -- Fantasia's Utopia -- Pastoral Symphony -- The Sorcerer's Apprentice -- Death of the Dinosaurs -- A Night on Bald Mountain -- Chapter 8 Regression and Jouissance -- The Regressive -- The Law and the Primordial in Regression -- Dumbo: Regressive Narratives -- Ugly Children -- Bambi: Death of the Mother and Jouissance -- Violence and the Cartoon Body in Bambi -- Part Three: The Hybrid Utopia -- Chapter 9 Hegemony -- Unionisation and the Disney Strike -- Films Made in Studio During the Strike -- Chapter 10 Disney's 'Good Neighbour' -- The Three Caballeros: Hyper-real Sexuality and Cartoon Jouissance -- Communist witch-hunts and red fear -- Chapter 11 World War II and Propaganda -- The Production of Canadian Propaganda -- The United States Enters the War -- Donald gets Drafted -- The Cartoon Body: Sadism, Exaggeration and Manipulation -- Propaganda, pornography and utopia -- Chapter 12 The Consumerist Utopia -- Television and Disneyland.

Feature-length Films of the 50s and 60s: Familial Sexuality -- Walt Disney's Death and Walt Disney World -- Conclusion -- Future Research and End Notes -- References, Filmography, Studios, Digital Rights -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Long considered a figurehead of family values and wholesome adolescence, the Disney franchise has faced increasing criticism over its gendered representations of children in film, its stereotypical representations of race and non-white cultures, and its emphasis on the heterosexual couple. Against a historical backdrop of studio history, audience reception, and the industrial-organizational apparatus of Disney media, Seán Harrington examines the Disney classics through a psychoanalytical framework to explore the spirit of devotion, fandom, and frenzy that is instilled in consumers of Disney products and that underlie the fantasy of the Magic Kingdom. This compelling study demystifies the unsettling cleanliness and pretensions to innocence that the Disney brand claims to hold.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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