The African Queen
How to survive not war, but peace, with one’s humanity intact?
Culture
Codes and myths, narratives and icons, rituals and representations.
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.”
Donald Steals the Show
Mickey’s repressed characteristics had returned… in a deformed (duckbilled) fashion!
A Bucket of Blood
Beatnik gives us anti-highbrow Beat-ness without the exaltation.
Neotonic Mickey
Over time, Mickey became progressively more juvenile in appearance.
Robocop
How best to convey the pathos and tragedy of the Ex-Ex-Human Condition?
Iconic Mickey
Mickey had become a cash cow.
Candyman
The unmentionable boogeyman is hermeneutic vertigo.
High-Lowbrow Mickey
"He is the voice and personification of the weltschmerz to the sophisticate."
Escape from Alcatraz
For captive and captor alike, there is no escape.