A Return to 2719 Hyperion Avenue: Walt Disney, the Animated Trickster

From the Surrealism of the 1920s to the contemporary obsession with the cult of celebrity, few storytelling mediums have been as influential as those of Hollywood. Perhaps none of Hollywood’s icons are as largely and globally influential as Walt Disney. The psychological power of moving picture arises from how films make us feel. Both as individuals and as a broader culture, films resonate because they reflect some sort of truth. They crawl inside and move that ineffable mystery that is the human soul. They reflect who we are, who we have been, and who we are becoming and, in doing