Holy Jolie
A fantasy of healing and romantic redemption that’s wildly off the mark.
Field Notes
Before analysis can begin, we must venture out and collect data.
Taking the Mickey
A marvelous proliferation of Mickey’s meaning.
Raising Arizona
A blank affect can be a canny psychic-survival stratagem.
Ballad of a Thin Man
Is this the end of the road for European serotonin depletion culture?
Nobrow Mickey
“It’s on America’s tortured brow / that Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow.”
Young and Innocent
It’s not about right vs. wrong, it’s about wit vs. shit.
Hear Me Roar
A new kind of activism previously unheard of in the kingdom.
“I’m the Mouse”
The origins of today's rich, imaginative Mickey-scape.
Buckaroo Banzai
For one moment, it seemed as though the Eighties might turn out OK.
Dynasty Reloaded
The unspoken expectation that the son is to be the father’s perfecting mirror.
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.
Meet the Semionauts
"Between the experiential cunning of the animal and the more self-disciplined and attentive cunning of the man."
Fifties Backlash
"Disney sold him into slavery, and he’s nothing. He's nothing."