Disney and the Dialectic of Desire: Fantasy as Social Practice

by Joseph L. Zornado

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319873695
• ISBN13: 9783319873695
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.2"