Mickey Mouse
The semiotics of “Mickey Mouse”-ness
Nobrow Mickey
“It’s on America’s tortured brow / that Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow.”
Sixties Backlash
Parody is an art form for "children who have had imposed upon them a meaningless iconography."
Fifties Backlash
"Disney sold him into slavery, and he’s nothing. He's nothing."
Disney Co. Mascot
"He’s so much of an institution that we’re limited in what we can do with him."
Forties Backlash
"A degenerate 'middlebrow' horror, mass-produced for profit."
Donald Steals the Show
Mickey’s repressed characteristics had returned… in a deformed (duckbilled) fashion!
Neotonic Mickey
Over time, Mickey became progressively more juvenile in appearance.
High-Lowbrow Mickey
"He is the voice and personification of the weltschmerz to the sophisticate."
