“I’m the Mouse”
The origins of today's rich, imaginative Mickey-scape.
Culture
Codes and myths, narratives and icons, rituals and representations.
Buckaroo Banzai
For one moment, it seemed as though the Eighties might turn out OK.
Seth’s Dominion
"I am still trying to approach my work with the same intentions I had as a child."
Sixties Backlash
Parody is an art form for "children who have had imposed upon them a meaningless iconography."
Barbarella
In its silly way, this is a movie about female sexual power.
Fifties Backlash
"Disney sold him into slavery, and he’s nothing. He's nothing."
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
A non-compact topological group of bare-breasted women in G-strings.
Disney Co. Mascot
"He’s so much of an institution that we’re limited in what we can do with him."
The African Queen
How to survive not war, but peace, with one’s humanity intact?
Forties Backlash
"A degenerate 'middlebrow' horror, mass-produced for profit."
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Comical yet not funny, equal-opportunity in its portrayal of human folly, artificial in the extreme.
Mickey’s Dork Age
From 1944–1953, Mickey was a Mouse Without Qualities.
Dazed and Confused
Single-night movies aren’t snapshots, they’re moonlit summoning rituals.
Parenting PWNs
“Win big at parenting.”