Identity in Animation : A Journey into Self, Difference, Culture and the Body (Paperback)

Introduction 1 The boop-oop-a-doop girl: culture, body and Betty Boop 2 Disney: self, patriarchy and punishment 3 Conflict and connection, body and performance: how Looney Tunes broke out of the asylum 4 The case for Wallace and Gromit: Britishness, horror, slapstick and the real 5 Who am I? Gender at play: guys in corsets, girls in love 6 The misfits: bodies, difference and wandering in the Clayography films of Adam Elliot 7 Hayao Miyazaki: place, nostalgia and adolescence 8 The ‘thingness’ of CG and the life of the object Conclusion