Figgis, Laurence (2013) (In)edible beauty: the surreal, the uncanny, the sentimental in Walt Disney's fairy-tale cartoons, 1937-1991. MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.
Due to Embargo and/or Third Party Copyright restrictions, this thesis is not available in this service.Abstract
This research has not been informed by direct visual comparison between Disney animation and works of avant-garde surrealism. Instead the author has drawn on verbal texts produced by writers and artists associated with the movement (notably those of Andre Breton, Salvador Dali and Louis Aragon) to interrogate a small number of Walt Disney's animated films produced between 1937 and 1991. The thesis considers the disturbance of taste in Disney's much-reviled sentimental oeuvre as a form of pictorial and psychological disturbance analogous to Surrealist concepts of 'convulsive' and 'edible beauty'.
| Item Type: | Thesis (MPhil(R)) |
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| Qualification Level: | Masters |
| Additional Information: | Due to copyright restrictions the full text of this thesis cannot be made available online. Access to the printed version is available once any embargo periods have expired. |
| Keywords: | Disney, Dali, surrealism, uncanny, convulsive, edible, beauty |
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures |
| Colleges/Schools: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Culture and Creative Arts > History of Art |
| Supervisor's Name: | Hopkins, Prof. David and Lury, Prof. Karen |
| Date of Award: | 2013 |
| Depositing User: | Mr Laurence Figgis |
| Unique ID: | glathesis:2013-4338 |
| Copyright: | Copyright of this thesis is held by the author. |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jun 2013 15:31 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2024 09:20 |
| URI: | https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/4338 |
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