Investigating Shrek
Subtitle: power, identity, and ideology
By: edited by Aurélie Lacassagne, Tim Nieguth,  François Dépelteau
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780230114159
Subjects: Motion pictures; History and criticism; Shrek (Motion picture); PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Description: "An exploration of the social significance of Shrek from a variety of theoretical perspectives, this book pursues two different, yet intertwined objectives. The first is to present Shrek as pedagogical tool that could be usefully employed in a number of different disciplines. Shrek is approached from a political science angle, a sociological perspective, and applied to the tenets of evolutionary psychology. The second objective is concerned with outlining some of the ways in which Shrek is actively bound up with various aspects of social reality--such as capitalism, power relations, inequality, rule and resistance. This book analyzes the green ogre and his companions in a way that is entertaining as well as informative"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Through the looking glass: Shrek in perspective; title: Aurélie Lacassagne, Tim Nieguth, and François Dépelteau * Shrek in the classroom * Representing political regimes in the Shrek trilogy; title: Aurélie Lacassagne * Big (and green) is better: Shrek and female body image; title: Mary Ryan * Green consciousness: Earth-based myth and meaning in Shrek; title: Jane Caputi * "Happiness is just a teardrop away": A Neo-Marxist interpretation of Shrek; title: Alexander Spencer, Judith Renner, and Andreas Kruck * Shrek in context * The mouse is dead, long live the ogre: Shrek and the boundaries of transgression; title: Daniel Downes and June Madeley * Kantian cosmopolitanism and the DreamWorkification of the next generation; title: Marianne Vardalos * An evolutionary psychological perspective on Shrek and Fiona; title: Gayle Brewer * Shrek as a non-human transactor and social movements; title: François Dépelteau * Potholes of knowledge: The politics of studying Shrek; title: Tim Nieguth.