Donald Steals the Show
Mickey’s repressed characteristics had returned… in a deformed (duckbilled) fashion!
Culture
Codes and myths, narratives and icons, rituals and representations.
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.
A Good American
"Too much whimsy and fantasy are objectionable.”
Pulp Fiction
Cinema irrupts into the TV space.
His Girl Friday
Propaganda of the most dramatic and welcome kind.
The Long Goodbye
Marlowe wanders the aisles of a supermarket at night.
Bonnie and Clyde
Down in front!
Daniel Clowes
A 1999 interview with Daniel Clowes, about Ghost World.