Disney and the Dialectic of Desire Fantasy as Social Practice [Hardcover]

This book analyzes Walt Disneys 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 Disneys 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 mans 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.

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.

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 l�