Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
A non-compact topological group of bare-breasted women in G-strings.
Field Notes
Before analysis can begin, we must venture out and collect data.
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.
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."