The Disney Fetish.

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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Main Author: Harrington, Sean.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Eastleigh : John Libbey Publishing, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Homunculus
  • A theoretical context
  • Psycho-mythology
  • The phallus and Disney animation
  • The conceptual homunculus
  • The Regressive Apparatus
  • Disney character tropes
  • The industrial process and the father
  • Fantasia and eroticism
  • Regression and jouissance
  • The hybrid utopia
  • Hegemony
  • Disney's 'good neighbour'
  • World War II and propaganda
  • The consumerist utopia.