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
(6 in a series of 15)
Robocop
How best to convey the pathos and tragedy of the Ex-Ex-Human Condition?
Iconic Mickey
Mickey had become a cash cow. (5 in a series of 15)
Candyman
The unmentionable boogeyman is hermeneutic vertigo.
High-Lowbrow Mickey
"He is the voice and personification of the weltschmerz to the sophisticate." (4 in a series of 15)
Escape from Alcatraz
For captive and captor alike, there is no escape.
A Good American
"Too much whimsy and fantasy are objectionable.” (3 in a series of 15)
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.