Pixar''s Boy Stories - Masculinity in a Postmodern Age

This volume examines films produced by Pixar Animation Studios between 1995 and 2013, exploring how boys become men and how men measure up in films from Toy Story to Monsters University. Offering counterintuitive readings of such works, this book describes how the films quietly but forcefully reiterate traditional masculine norms, in terms of what they praise and what they condemn.

List of contents

Introduction: A Feminist Approach to Boy Culture

Chapter 1: Postfeminist Nostalgia for Pre-Sputnik Cowboys
Chapter 2: Superior Bodies and Blue-Collar Brawn: "Real" and Rhetorical Manhoods
Chapter 3: "I am Speed": Athleticism, Competition, and the Bully Society
Chapter 4: "Hey, double prizes!" Pixar's Boy Villains' Gifts and Intensities
Chapter 5: Ornamental Masculinity and the Commodity-Self
Chapter 6: "She don't love you no more": Bad Boys and Worse Parents

Works Cited
About the Authors
Index

About the author

By Shannon R. Wooden and Ken Gillam

Summary

This volume examines films produced by Pixar Animation Studios between 1995 and 2013, exploring how boys become men and how men measure up in films from Toy Story to Monsters University. Offering counterintuitive readings of such works, this book describes how the films quietl...

Product details

• Authors: Ken Gillam, Gillam Ken, Shannon R. Wooden, Shannon R. Gillam Wooden, Wooden Shannon R.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2014
• EAN: 9781442233584
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-3358-4
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Animated, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: men and boys, Animated films and animation, Animated Films, Film Theory & Criticism, Gender Studies: Men, Film history, theory or criticism