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Pixar's Boy Stories - Masculinity in a Postmodern Age (Hardcover)
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Pixar's Boy Stories - Masculinity in a Postmodern Age (Hardcover)
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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.
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