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

Informationen zum Autor By Shannon R. Wooden and Ken Gillam Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: A Feminist Approach to Boy CultureChapter 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 SocietyChapter 4: "Hey, double prizes!" Pixar's Boy Villains' Gifts and Intensities Chapter 5: Ornamental Masculinity and the Commodity-SelfChapter 6: "She don't love you no more": Bad Boys and Worse ParentsWorks CitedAbout the AuthorsIndex

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• Authors: Gillam, Ken Gillam, Gillam Ken, Shannon R. Wooden, Shannon R. Gillam Wooden, Wooden Shannon R.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781442275652
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-7565-2
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; 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, Film history, theory or criticism