Animated Mischief

Essays on Subversiveness in Cartoons Since 1987

Brian N. Duchaney, David S. Silverman (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2023
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6397-5 (ISBN)

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Over the last century, the medium of animation has served as an expression of childhood as well as a method of subverting the expectations of what society has promised for the future. Separated into three parts, this work assembles various explorations of taste, culture and passion through animation.

Section I features essays that outline the historical changes in art and society that gave rise to an outsider culture that found a home in animation. In the second section, essays examine the practical use of animation as a voice for the underserved. Finally, in Section III, essays analyze the ways in which animation has reshaped the acceptance of outsider status to embrace otherness. Featuring everything from feature-length films to self-produced YouTube videos, the essays in this text reflect a shared love of animation and its unique ability to comment on society and culture.

Brian N. Duchaney serves as the director of Military & Veteran Student Services and teaches part-time in the departments of English and Communication Studies at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. David S. Silverman is an educator and media historian with more than twenty years in the classroom across the Midwest. He has also helped to plan a number of conferences on both the national and international stage, and currently resides in the Kansas City area.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Brian N. Duchaney and David S. Silverman

Part I: Historical Constructs and the Rise of Subversiveness

Saturday Morning Trojan Mouse: The Origin of the Creator-Driven Television Cartoon

Lev Cantoral and Tyler Solon Williams

Capitalization in a Half-Shell: Multimedia, Cross-Demographic Marketing of Animated and Comic Content from Mickey to Michelangelo

Jared Bahir Browsh

“Someone’s coming! Act natural”: Visions of Animated Childhood in 1990s America

Jane Batkin

Part II: Rethinking American Culture Through Social Challenges

Rocko’s Modern Life and the Pains of Early Adulting

Adrián García

Shrek and the Art of Subversion

Chandrama Basu

“Once again, the day is saved”: How the Subversive Feminism of The Powerpuff Girls Permanently Changed Television Animation

David Perlmutter

We Need to Talk About The Lego Movie! Social Commentary and Consumer Culture in the LEGO-verse

Sasha Dilan Krugman

Part III: Modern America and the Transformation of Social Order

“This is me now!” Gene’s Gender Play in Bob’s Burgers

Dan Abitz

Giving Cinderella a Girlfriend: Queerness and Subversion in Non/Disney Fan Videos

Danielle Hart

“Who are you? Who am I!?” The Raunchy Identity Moratorium in Netflix’s Big Mouth

Marcus Mallard

Daria: Still Standing on Our Necks, Then and

David S. Silverman

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.09.2023
Zusatzinfo	notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
ISBN-10	1-4766-6397-1 / 1476663971
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6397-5 / 9781476663975
Zustand	Neuware