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Subject(s)

• Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures [Browse]
• Animated films—History and criticism [Browse]
• Cartoon characters—History [Browse]

Summary note

'Identity in Animation' uncovers the meaning behind some of the most influential characters in the history of animation and questions their unique sense of who they are and how they are formed. Jane Batkin explores how identity politics shape the inner psychology of the character and their exterior motivation, often buoyed along by their questioning of 'place' and 'belonging' and driven by issues of self, difference, gender and the body. Through this, Batkin illustrates and questions the construction of stereotypes as well as unconventional representations within American, European and Eastern animation.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• The Boop Oop a Doop Girl culture, body and Betty Boop
• Disney: self, patriarchy and punishment
• Conflict and connection, body and performance how Looney Tunes broke out of the asylum
• The case for Wallace and Gromit Britishness, horror, slapstick and the real
• Who am I? gender at play guys in corsets, girls in love
• The misfits: bodies, difference and wandering in the clayography films of Adam Elliot
• Hayao Miyazaki: nostalgia, nature and adolescence
• The thingness of CG
• Conclusion.

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ISBN

• 9781138849778 (hardback : alkaline paper)
• 1138849774 (hardback : alkaline paper)
• 9781138849785 (paperback : alkaline paper)
• 1138849782 (paperback : alkaline paper)

LCCN

^^2016033413

OCLC

962068777

RCP

H - S

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