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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 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.

Fantasy --- Social aspects. --- Walt Disney Company. --- Day dreams --- Phantasy --- Defense mechanisms (Psychology) --- Dreams --- Imagination --- Visions --- Disney Studio --- 迪斯尼公司 --- Mei guo di shi ni gong si --- 美國迪士尼公司 --- Walt Disney Productions --- Motion pictures. --- Animated films. --- Aesthetics. --- Motion pictures-United States. --- Film genres. --- Film Theory. --- Animation. --- American Cinema and TV. --- Genre. --- Genre films --- Genres, Film --- Motion picture genres --- Motion pictures --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Art --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Animated cartoons (Motion pictures) --- Animated videos --- Cartoons, Animated (Motion pictures) --- Motion picture cartoons --- Moving-picture cartoons --- Caricatures and cartoons --- Abstract films --- Animation (Cinematography) --- Animation cels --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Plots, themes, etc. --- Psychology --- History and criticism --- Motion pictures—United States. --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Aesthetics