Taking the Mickey
A marvelous proliferation of Mickey’s meaning.
Culture
Codes and myths, narratives and icons, rituals and representations.
Raising Arizona
A blank affect can be a canny psychic-survival stratagem.
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.
“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.
Seth’s Dominion
"I am still trying to approach my work with the same intentions I had as a child."
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.
Fifties Backlash
"Disney sold him into slavery, and he’s nothing. He's nothing."
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
A non-compact topological group of bare-breasted women in G-strings.
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."