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A Good American
"Too much whimsy and fantasy are objectionable.”
Field notes on Mickey Mouse — preliminary to a semiotic analysis.
"Too much whimsy and fantasy are objectionable.”
A marvelous proliferation of Mickey’s meaning.
“It’s on America’s tortured brow / that Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow.”
The origins of today's rich, imaginative Mickey-scape.
Parody is an art form for "children who have had imposed upon them a meaningless iconography."
"Disney sold him into slavery, and he’s nothing. He's nothing."
"He’s so much of an institution that we’re limited in what we can do with him."
"A degenerate 'middlebrow' horror, mass-produced for profit."
From 1944–1953, Mickey was a Mouse Without Qualities.
Mickey’s repressed characteristics had returned… in a deformed (duckbilled) fashion!
Over time, Mickey became progressively more juvenile in appearance.
Mickey had become a cash cow.
"He is the voice and personification of the weltschmerz to the sophisticate."
"Mickey! Mickey! Tricky Mickey Mouse!”
A black body and head, large eyeballs, and a partially white face.