"In 2010, Cartoon Network debuted a new animated series called Adventure Time, and within just a few short years the show became both a pop culture phenomenon and a critical darling. But despite all the admiration, not many works of scholarship have assessed the show through a critical lens. This anthology is an attempt to fill this scholarly oversight and spark a wider conversation about the show's deeper themes. Across 15 scholarly essays, this book's contributors study Adventure Time from a variety of angles, proving just how insightful the series really is. From a consideration of BMO's queer identity to a psychoanalytic reading of Lemongrab and an examination of how anime has impacted the show, the topics explored in this anthology are diverse and unique and are likely to appeal to scholars and fans alike"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Paul A. Thomas
Prelude: The Three Levels of Adventure Time
Paul A. Thomas
"One isn't purely defined by their sex or gender": Gender, Sexuality, and Representation in Adventure Time
Be More Than the Binary: Experiencing Queer Subjectivity with
Olivia M. Vogt
From Censorship to "Obsidian": A Critical and Historical Look at "Bubbline"
Mage Hadley
Rainbows and Unicorns: The Influence of Bubbline on Apocalyptic Film and Animation
Steven Holmes
"Get your hero on, dude!" Charting Jake's Growth as a Positive Masculine Role Model
Bridget M. Blodgett and Anastasia Salter
Yellow Voices and Rainbow Bodies: Accent, Multilingualism, and the Politics of Representation in Adventure Time
Camille Chane
"Behind this curtain of patterns. . .": The Philosophy of
Mikhail Bakhtin in the Land of Ooo: The Carnivalesque, Heteroglossia, and the Fun That Never Ends
Aaron Kerner and Birdy Wei-Ting Hung
"And we will happen again and again": Adventure Time and the Sisyphean Struggle
Sequoia Stone
What Time Is It? Postmodernity! Postmodern Praxis in Adventure Time
Jenine Oosthuizen
Making a New Meaning for Man in The Land of OOO: Object-Oriented Ontology, the NonHuman, and Difference
in Distant Lands
Al Valentí n
"Mind Games": Mental and Emotional Toiling
Too Close for Comfort: On Finn the Human and Princess Bubblegum's Relationship
Zhi Hwee Goh
Of Lacan and Lemons: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Season Six's "The Mountain"
Paul A. Thomas
Trauma and the Body in Adventure Time
Steven Kielich
"Is that where creativity comes from?" Adventure Time and the Artistic Medium
The Japanese Spirit and Aesthetic in Western Animation: The Influence of Anime on Adventure Time
Kendra N. Sheehan
"Bad Jubies": Giving Value to the Intangible in Artistic Professions
Catalina Millá n Scheiding
About the Contributors
Index
