Toy Story and the Inner World of the Child
eBook - ePub

Toy Story and the Inner World of the Child

Animation, Play, and Creative Life

  1. 202 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Toy Story and the Inner World of the Child

Animation, Play, and Creative Life

About this book

Toy Story and the Inner World of the Child offers the first comprehensive analysis of the role of toys and play within the development of film and animation.

The author takes the reader on a journey through the complex interweaving of the animation industry with inner world processes, beginning with the early history of film. Karen Cross explores digital meditations through an in-depth analysis of the Pixar Studios and the making of the Toy Story franchise. The book shows how the Toy Story functions as an outlet for exploring fears and anxieties relating to new technologies and industrial processes and the value of taking a psycho-cultural approach to recent controversies surrounding the film industry, particularly its cultural and sexual politics.

The book is key reading for film and animation scholars as well as those who are interested in applications of psychoanalysis to popular culture and children's media.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication Page
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Series Preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Animation and the inner world
  12. 2 ‘Laser envy’ and the myth of technological omnipotence
  13. 3 Fear, guilt, and defence against loss
  14. 4 Adolescent control and preserving toy stories
  15. 5 Feminine playscapes: transgression of form and control of space
  16. 6 Voice and inclusion in newly mobilised states
  17. Postscript
  18. Index