Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade ReviewAn incredible look at an often-overlooked staple of Cartoon Network, this text will provide scholars (and scholarly-minded fans) of
Adventure Time a paradigmatic examination of the program."—David S. Silverman, Kansas State University-Salina
Table of Contents
- 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 Valentín
- "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 Millán Scheiding
- About the Contributors
- Index
