Pixar's boy stories : masculinity in a postmodern age

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 reiter...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Wooden, Shannon R.
Other Authors: Gillam, Ken
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, 2014
Subjects:
Pixar (Firm)
Masculinity in motion pictures.
Men in motion pictures.
Animated films > History and criticism.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a feminist approach to boy culture
  • Postfeminist nostalgia for pre-sputnik cowboys
  • Superior bodies and blue-collar brawn: "real" and rhetorical manhoods
  • "I am speed": athleticism, competition, and the bully society
  • "Hey, double prizes!" Pixar's boy villains, gifts and intensities
  • Ornamental masculinity and the commodity-self
  • "She don't love you no more": bad boys and worse parents.

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