The Disney fetish

The Disney fetish / Seán Harrington.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harrington, Sean (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Barnet, Herts : John Libbey Publishing Ltd., [2015]
Subjects:
Walt Disney Company > History.
Walt Disney Company
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part one. The homunculus
  • A theoretical context
  • Psycho-mythology
  • The phallus and Disney animation
  • The conceptual homunculus
  • Part two. The regressive apparatus
  • Disney character tropes
  • The industrial process and the father
  • Fantasia and eroticism
  • Regression and jouissance
  • Part three. The hybrid utopia
  • Hegemony
  • Disney's "Good neighbour"
  • World War II and propaganda
  • The consumerist utopia.

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