Pixar with Lacan: The Hysteric's Guide to Animation

by Lilian Munk Rösing

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628920599
• ISBN13: 9781628920598
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"