Brings together essays about the ways BoJack Horseman handles complex and highly nuanced topics within three main themes: mental health, masculinity, and the perils of celebrity. The essays offer a variety of perspectives on these themes, how they are represented, and the ways that both characters and viewers engage with them.
Brings together essays about the ways BoJack Horseman handles complex and highly nuanced topics within three main themes: mental health, masculinity, and the perils of celebrity. The essays offer a variety of perspectives on these themes, how they are represented, and the ways that both characters and viewers engage with them.
Harriet E.H. Earle is a lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Her work has appeared in The Journal of Popular Culture and The European Journal of American Culture.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Once Upon a Time in Hollywoo Harriet E.H. Earle "That's too much, man": Masculinities and Identity It's Different Because He's a Horse: Race, Gender, and Identity in Anthropomorphic Animation John Alberti More Horse Than a Man, or More Man Than a Horse: Rethinking Masculinity Through Zany Anthropomorphism Juliana Varela Anthropomorphic Deviations Ole Christoffer Haga Scribbles and Compression: Tracing Feminist Animation Aesthetics Jacqueline Ristola "Silence drowns the sound": Mental Health and Trauma "Someday this will all be a pleasant memory": Exploring Cycles of Trauma in Beatrice, Sarah Lynn, and Hollyhock Laura Mulcahy "I'm really carrying this double act": BoJack, Beatrice, Memory, and Forgetting Sam Chesters "Why the long face?" Metamodernism, Incongruity and Mental Illness Lucy Rivers "I'll take flight. Maybe tomorrow. Not tonight": A Psychoanalytic Perspective on "The Old Sugarman Place" Mike Clarke and Aanchal Vij "Everyone loves you, but no one likes you": Celebrity, Fame, and Entitlement Property, Entitlement, Impropriety: Hollywoo(d) Plays Itself at 1475 Luck Hoof Avenue Lawrence Alexander Hollywoo Stars and Celebrities: Who Are They? How Are They Created? Let's Find Out! Arya Rani Todd's Rock Opera and the Efficacy of Dikshya Karki "We're all terrible, so therefore we're all OK": The Deconstruction of the Masculine Icon and the Concept of Forgiveness Sarah Wagstaffe About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Once Upon a Time in Hollywoo Harriet E.H. Earle "That's too much, man": Masculinities and Identity It's Different Because He's a Horse: Race, Gender, and Identity in Anthropomorphic Animation John Alberti More Horse Than a Man, or More Man Than a Horse: Rethinking Masculinity Through Zany Anthropomorphism Juliana Varela Anthropomorphic Deviations Ole Christoffer Haga Scribbles and Compression: Tracing Feminist Animation Aesthetics Jacqueline Ristola "Silence drowns the sound": Mental Health and Trauma "Someday this will all be a pleasant memory": Exploring Cycles of Trauma in Beatrice, Sarah Lynn, and Hollyhock Laura Mulcahy "I'm really carrying this double act": BoJack, Beatrice, Memory, and Forgetting Sam Chesters "Why the long face?" Metamodernism, Incongruity and Mental Illness Lucy Rivers "I'll take flight. Maybe tomorrow. Not tonight": A Psychoanalytic Perspective on "The Old Sugarman Place" Mike Clarke and Aanchal Vij "Everyone loves you, but no one likes you": Celebrity, Fame, and Entitlement Property, Entitlement, Impropriety: Hollywoo(d) Plays Itself at 1475 Luck Hoof Avenue Lawrence Alexander Hollywoo Stars and Celebrities: Who Are They? How Are They Created? Let's Find Out! Arya Rani Todd's Rock Opera and the Efficacy of Dikshya Karki "We're all terrible, so therefore we're all OK": The Deconstruction of the Masculine Icon and the Concept of Forgiveness Sarah Wagstaffe About the Contributors Index
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