TY - BOOK ID - 16242368 TI - Disney and the Dialectic of Desire : Fantasy as Social Practice PY - 2017 SN - 3319626779 3319626760 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Fantasy KW - Social aspects. KW - Walt Disney Company. KW - Day dreams KW - Phantasy KW - Defense mechanisms (Psychology) KW - Dreams KW - Imagination KW - Visions KW - Disney Studio KW - 迪斯尼公司 KW - Mei guo di shi ni gong si KW - 美國迪士尼公司 KW - Walt Disney Productions KW - Motion pictures. KW - Animated films. KW - Aesthetics. KW - Motion pictures-United States. KW - Film genres. KW - Film Theory. KW - Animation. KW - American Cinema and TV. KW - Genre. KW - Genre films KW - Genres, Film KW - Motion picture genres KW - Motion pictures KW - Beautiful, The KW - Beauty KW - Esthetics KW - Taste (Aesthetics) KW - Philosophy KW - Art KW - Criticism KW - Literature KW - Proportion KW - Symmetry KW - Animated cartoons (Motion pictures) KW - Animated videos KW - Cartoons, Animated (Motion pictures) KW - Motion picture cartoons KW - Moving-picture cartoons KW - Caricatures and cartoons KW - Abstract films KW - Animation (Cinematography) KW - Animation cels KW - Cinema KW - Feature films KW - Films KW - Movies KW - Moving-pictures KW - Audio-visual materials KW - Mass media KW - Performing arts KW - Plots, themes, etc. KW - Psychology KW - History and criticism KW - Motion pictures—United States. KW - Radio broadcasting Aesthetics KW - Aesthetics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16242368 AB - 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. ER -