Pixar's boy stories : masculinity in a postmodern age
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Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014].
Physical Description
xl, 157 pages ; 24 cm
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Gillette College Library - Pop Culture Collection
PC 791.4365211 W886P 2014
1 available
PC 791.4365211 W886P 2014
1 available
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Gillette College Library - Pop Culture Collection | PC 791.4365211 W886P 2014 | Housed in Popular Culture collection - Green dot | On Shelf |
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Casper College Library - Main Collection | PN1995.9 .M34 W66 2014 | On Shelf |
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Published
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014].
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Book
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English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-149) and index.
Summary
Since Toy Story, its first feature in 1995, Pixar Animation Studios has produced a string of commercial and critical successes including Monsters, Inc.; WALL-E; Finding Nemo; The Incredibles; Cars; and Up. In nearly all of these films, male characters are prominently featured, usually as protagonists. Despite obvious surface differences, these figures often follow similar narratives toward domestic fulfillment and civic engagement. However, these characters are also hypermasculine types whose paths lead to postmodern social roles more revelatory of the current "crisis" that sociologists and others have noted in boy culture. In Pixar's Boy Stories: Masculinity in a Postmodern Age, Shannon R. Wooden and Ken Gillam examine how boys become men and how men measure up in films produced by the animation giant. Offering counterintuitive readings of boy culture, this book describes how the films quietly but forcefully reiterate traditional masculine norms in terms of what they praise and what they condemn. Whether toys or ants, monsters or cars, Pixar's males succeed or fail according to the "boy code, " the relentlessly policed gender standards rampant in American boyhood. Structured thematically around major issues in contemporary boy culture, the book discusses conformity, hypermasculinity, social hierarchies, disability, bullying, and an implicit critique of postmodern parenting. Unprecedented in its focus on Pixar and boys in its films, this book offers a valuable perspective to current conversations about gender and cinema. Providing a critical discourse about masculine roles in animated features, Pixar's Boy Stories will be of interest to scholars of film, media, and gender studies and to parents.--Back cover.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Wooden, S. R., & Gillam, K. (2014). Pixar's boy stories: masculinity in a postmodern age . Rowman & Littlefield.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wooden, Shannon R and Ken. Gillam. 2014. Pixar's Boy Stories: Masculinity in a Postmodern Age. Rowman & Littlefield.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wooden, Shannon R and Ken. Gillam. Pixar's Boy Stories: Masculinity in a Postmodern Age Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Wooden, Shannon R., and Ken Gillam. Pixar's Boy Stories: Masculinity in a Postmodern Age Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
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