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
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E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten, eBook

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).