Pixar's boy stories: masculinity in a postmodern age

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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.

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Full title :Pixar's boy stories : masculinity in a postmodern age / Shannon R. Wooden, Ken Gillam.

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Publication Date:©2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Rowman and Littlefield
Place of Publication:Lanham
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2014

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xl, 157 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781442233591, 1442233591, 1442275650, 9781442275652
oclc:ocn875894633
LC Classification:PN1995.9.M34
Dewey Decimal:791.43/65211

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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Animated films Animated films -- History and criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc Hommes au cinéma Masculinité au cinéma Masculinity in motion pictures Men in motion pictures PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference Pixar (Firm)