Mickey’s Dork Age
From 1944–1953, Mickey was a Mouse Without Qualities.
Culture
Codes and myths, narratives and icons, rituals and representations.
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."
Escape from Alcatraz
For captive and captor alike, there is no escape.
A Good American
"Too much whimsy and fantasy are objectionable.”
Pulp Fiction
Cinema irrupts into the TV space.
His Girl Friday
Propaganda of the most dramatic and welcome kind.