Analyzing Adventure Time
Critical Essays on Cartoon Network's World of Ooo
Will be published approx. on 20. July 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
271 pages
978-1-4766-7858-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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-SalinaMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
notes, bibliographies, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
446 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4766-7858-0 (9781476678580)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
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.
Content
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 Valentin
"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 Millan Scheiding
About the Contributors
Index
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 Valentin
"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 Millan Scheiding
About the Contributors
Index