Identity in Animation: A Journey Into Self, Difference, Culture and the Body

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
List of figures......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
1 The boop-oop-a-doop girl: culture, body and Betty Boop......Page 19
2 Disney: self, patriarchy and punishment......Page 37
3 Conflict and connection, body and performance: how Looney Tunes broke out of the asylum......Page 59
4 The case for Wallace and Gromit: Britishness, horror, slapstick and the real......Page 80
5 Who am I? Gender at play: guys in corsets, girls in love......Page 100
6 The misfits: bodies, difference and wandering in the Clayography films of Adam Elliot......Page 126
7 Hayao Miyazaki: place, nostalgia and adolescence......Page 144
8 The ‘thingness’ of CG and the life of the object......Page 162
Conclusion......Page 180
Index......Page 184