{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "actually i'd be really interested in your take on _oliver and company_. i watched it once and i was weirdly floored by its...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/165215338368/", "html": "
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
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there was this weird 80s moment before the Disney Renaissance set in where people drew these talking animal things \u2013 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 \u2013 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

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