The films from Pixar Animation Studios belong to the most popular
family films today. From Monsters Inc to Toy Story and Wall-E, the
animated characters take on human qualities that demand more than just
cultural analysis. What animates the human subject according to Pixar?
What are the ideological implications? Pixar with Lacan has the double
aim of analyzing the Pixar films and exemplifying important
psychoanalytic concepts (the voice, the gaze, partial object, the
Other, the object a, the primal father, the name-of-the-father,
symbolic castration, the imaginary/ the real/ the symbolic, desire and
drive, the four discourses, masculine/feminine), examining the
ideological implications of the images of human existence given in the
films.
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The Hysteric's Guide to Animation
Product details
ISBN
9781628920628
Published
2015
Edition
1. edition
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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