5. Film is an industrial art form from the start but Disney (along with Chaplin) was one of few moviemakers to obsess over this as a theme
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6. A Disney animated feature, especially in early days, is above all a feat of organized labour: of coordinating countless artisans.
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7. The dream of Disney (only partially fulfilled) was to keep alive artisan craft values in age of industrial production
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8. Affiliation with artisanal culture partially explains Disney's recurring use of folkloric Gothic Middle Europe as setting
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9. The ideal of mixing artisanal values in industrial workplace was also Disney's persona: artist and businessman
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10. Disney's fantasy was running his studio like a paternalistic master artist, with his staff as grateful hardworking apprentices.
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11. Of course Disney's fantasy of himself as beloved master artist of happy workshop came to grief in bitter animator's strike of 1941.
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12. The centrality of work continues to inform post-Disney animation: Minions, Toy Story movies, Cars etc.
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13. Building on Disney thematics, Minion movies are about artisan/workers finding consolation in obedience to a master (villain).
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14. The fact that the master is a villain & Minions are goofballs of course makes Disney thematic ironic.
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15. Yet even for the poor benighted Minions there is the possibility of redemption through class struggle: https://www.facebook.com/notes/t-h-e-o-r-y-is-my-praxis/a-minion-manifesto-toward-a-leftist-recuperation-of-the-minions/1116144098497250/ …
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Trump is Gru, only without the empathy or intelligence.
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