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.

Parenting PWNs

“Win big at parenting.”

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."