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Author:   Paul A. Thomas
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Volume:   84
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.354kg
ISBN:  

9781476678580

ISBN 10:   1476678588
Pages:   271
Publication Date:   20 July 2023
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

Reviews

"""An 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"

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Paul A. Thomas is a library specialist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He holds a PhD in library and information management from Emporia State University.

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