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Zusatztext I found the book imaginative, engaging and unusually perceptive about the linkage of Pixar's animation to what drives us psychologically, economically and ideologically. Munk Rosing takes on all of Pixar's films, from Toy Story to Up! , demonstrating her depth of knowledge of the techniques and innovations in animation that she then analyzes beautifully by the light of psychoanalytic theory after Freud and Lacan. This is a tour de force, a must-read for all students of contemporary culture. Informationen zum Autor Lilian Munk Rösing is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. She has published four books (three in Danish, one in English) and a large number of articles combining psychoanalysis with literary and cultural criticism. Latest publication: Pixar with Lacan: The Hysteric’s Guide to Animation (2016). Vorwort Presents Lacanian interpretations of the animations films from Pixar Studio with the double aim of analysing an influential filmic oeuvre of contemporary popular culture and giving an introduction to Lacanian cultural analysis. Zusammenfassung The films from Pixar Animation Studios belong to the most popular family films today. From Monsters Inc to Toy Story and Wall-E, the animated characters take on human qualities that demand more than just cultural analysis. What animates the human subject according to Pixar? What are the ideological implications? Pixar with Lacan has the double aim of analyzing the Pixar films and exemplifying important psychoanalytic concepts (the voice, the gaze, partial object, the Other, the object a , the primal father, the name-of-the-father, symbolic castration, the imaginary/ the real/ the symbolic, desire and drive, the four discourses, masculine/feminine), examining the ideological implications of the images of human existence given in the films. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction2. Beyond the Name of the Father: Toy Story 1 3. Big O is Watching You: Toy Story 2 4. Sadism in the Kindergarten: Toy Story 3 5. Entertainment as Warfare: A Bug’s Life 6. There is Nothing More Toxic than a Human Child: Monsters, Inc. 7. Just Keep Swimming: Finding Nemo 8. More than Super: The Incredibles9. The Mother Road: Cars 10. Man is a Puppet, Soul is a Rat: Ratatouille 11. Humanity Stuck in Vacation Hell: Wall-E 12. His Master’s Voice: Up 13. ConclusionEpilogue: Animation and Capitalism BibliographyIndex...
