Pixar with Lacan
Subtitle: the hysteric's guide to animation
By: Lilian Munk Rösing
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781628920598
Subjects: Animated films; PERFORMING ARTS / Animation; Pixar (Firm); History and criticism; PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Description: "Presents Lacanian interpretations of the animations films from Pixar Studio with the double aim of analysing an influential filmic oeuvre of contemporary popular culture and giving an introduction to Lacanian cultural analysis"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Introduction2. Beyond the Name of the Father: Toy Story 13. Big O is Watching You: Toy Story 24. Sadism in the Kindergarten: Toy Story 35. Hey Water, I'm in my Soup: A Bug's Life6. There is Nothing More Toxic than a Human Child: Monsters, Inc. 7. Just Keep Swimming: Finding Nemo8. More than Super: The Incredibles9. The Mother Road: Cars10. Man is a Puppet, Soul is a Rat: Ratatouille11. Wall-E: Humanity Stuck in Vacation Hell12. His Master's Voice: Up13. ConclusionBibliographyIndex.