Films and Feelings

  There’s this self-fulfilling prophecy at work concerning The Walt Disney Company: because the films are so "base" and "popularist," trying to apply critical analysis onto these movies is a waste of time and resources. And yet because the films are undeniably popular, they demand some kind of examination. But with no one who really knows how this game works, what we’re stuck with are very crude and ill-conceived attempts at dissecting the Disney library.     I've explored a lot of case studies of this phenomenon across my writing for this blog. This sort of thing is never that far from my mind. But my general thoughts on the stigmatization of the Disney fandom have taken a very specific turn in recent times against recent headlines.       The Walt Disney Company has had some rather embarrassing box office flops in the last two or three years, and a lot of voices have been eager to link Disney’s recent financial woes to certain choices. Specif...