Walt Disney

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Walt Disney only occasionally, mostly in connection with two films. The one he returns to most often is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In a session on work, he remarks that the dwarfs work in the mine without being black1. He traces these cave-dwelling dwarfs back to the Nibelungen, in connection with Siegfried2. He also recalls that it was Hitler's favourite film, noting that it is not a bad film3. This Germanic ancestry fits with the way he presents Disney as an American who was first of all Germanic. Fantasia comes up in the Musicosophie sessions. Discussing programme music and pure music, he notes that Bach's Toccata and Fugue is depicted there by abstract lines: it is the only exception in a film that illustrates the music4. He also mentions Disney as the film's producer. Finally, he compares Pinocchio with the sudden growth of the dream in Nerval's Aurélia5.

1. 1Café Marxiste - Travail et droit au travail20 May 2018 · 5:18
2. 2L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 1:39:07
3. 3TROP TARD ?14 Aug 2024 · 1:52:05
4. 4Musicosophie 16. Musique à programme / Musique pure10 Mar 2021 · 5:17
5. 5#4.3 Angélique (de Nerval)11 Dec 2017 · 1:23:05

Summary produced automatically from 7 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.