A Lost Generation
The Disney boom of the 1980s and 1990s confirmed the cultural realities addressed above, and the worldwide consumer made their willingness to accept Disney--just about anything Disney--quite clear. The result, however, was that of an "everyday Disney."
Baby boomers, for instance, recall Disney with more fondness, as a more "special" occurrence in their young lives. For many years, and due to the limited nature of distribution channels, the arrival of a Disney movie or television program was an event rather than an expectation.
Going to a Disney film was more akin to a birthday or holiday. Disney's Sunday night presence in the home was very much like going to church.
Disney also always presented its product with a consistent confidence ("Look to the Name Walt Disney for the Finest in Family Entertainment"), no matter its form, whether a live-action comedy, an animated feature, or a new theme park attraction.
For the generations that came between 1985 and today, that meaning of Disney has shifted into something more mundane. In creating a corporate success story, there has been an attendant lowering of the special cultural equity ("Holiday Feeling").
To a large degree, Disney became a simple and inexpensive (although trustworthy) babysitter and, in effect, "background noise" or "wallpaper" to the current generation. Thus, the current generation will probably take a commensurate attitude, and not introduce their own kids to a "special" Disney of their youth in years to come.
A greater and more cohesive attention needs to be paid to the encompassing position of the Disney culture, and how it is portrayed and distributed to the world audience.
Letcha know how it was when its over
ixel Perfect,and Full court Miracle...those were the last 2 D.C.O.M.
Brink,**Halloween town, and Halloween Town 2:Kalabars revenge**
