Disney and the Dialectic of Desire

Fantasy as Social Practice

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvJoseph Zornado

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-08-24
Mått148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt356 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor260
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319873695

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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).

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.