These notes I have transcribed and saved in a document on my computer, but I am not sure exactly from where I sourced them, so here they are below, unreferenced, until such time as I can determine where I originally read them from! Apologies!
'It is a mistake to assume that Disney's ideology represents a radical departure from the american norm. Its appeal is based on careful attention to centrist values' (238)
'The bodies presented are beautifully crafted fictions. Disney's narratives are, like all, ideological constructs and so too are its bodies.' (238)
'representing a configured idealized male body. the bodies of people of color and women, and therefore the narratives surrounding them, are largely absent' (238)
'Disney, as the master trickster on the scene, has taken control of bodies, mutated and mutilated them without mercy in the service of his narrative' (238)
'Walt Disney World does not just suppress people of color and women, as does the larger world; it has the tendency to suppress anything problematic, no matter how central to European American history. This suppression is part of its pleasure contract.' (238)
'Ordinarily, Disney grossly distorts culture differences, homogenizing them into a happy multi-cultural mix from which every alien element emerges Mickey-clean and ready for shopping mall consumption. It has at its disposal a vast array of techniques that neatly reinscribe difference, writing over bland diversity' (242)
'the male gaze dominates at Disney' (244) 'homosexuality is diffused' (244)
'Although Mickey's sexuality is normally repressed, one of Mickey's costumes in the late 40's and 50's was also reminiscent of the pachuco costume' (247)
'ambiguously coded bodies' (248)
'Disney has meticulously tailored its product to appeal to those who accept a normalized American version of culture' (248)
'representation is a pre-historic activity and pleasure. the pleasure of representation seems to stitch together the somatic and the intellectual. as our technologies for representation evolve, the complexities of the issues concerning them seem to evolve' (249)
one subtext of this essay is the violence of exclusion - "when the pirates of the Caribbean breaks down the pirates don't eat the guests"
for Disney, commodification rules
