actually i'd be really interested in your take on _oliver and company_. i watched it once and i was weirdly floored by its...
Anonymous asked: actually i'd be really interested in your take on _oliver and company_. i watched it once and i was weirdly floored by its positioning as a historical artifact in disney's (hence america's) cultural trajectory. it is curiously pitiful, in a number of ways
there was this weird 80s moment before the Disney Renaissance set in where people drew these talking animal things – Oliver & Co., American Tail, All Dogs Go To Heaven, the Heathcliff cartoon, let’s be provocative in one direction and say Maus, in another and say Spielberg’s Tiny Toons and Animaniacs – that were very much a throwback combination of the alley cat White Ethnic urbanism they grew up in and the cartoons they watched in theaters there