Animated Mischief

Brian N. Duchaney serves as the director of Military & Veteran Student Services and teaches part-time in the departments of English and Communication Studies at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. David S. Silverman is an educator and media historian with more than twenty years in the classroom across the Midwest. He has also helped to plan a number of conferences on both the national and international stage, and currently resides in the Kansas City area.

Table of Contents


Introduction

Brian N. Duchaney and David S. Silverman

Part I: Historical Constructs and the Rise of Subversiveness

Saturday Morning Trojan Mouse: The Origin of the ­­Creator-Driven Television Cartoon

Lev Cantoral and Tyler Solon Williams

Capitalization in a ­­Half-Shell: Multimedia, ­­Cross-Demographic Marketing of Animated and Comic Content from Mickey to Michelangelo

Jared Bahir Browsh

“Someone’s coming! Act natural”: Visions of Animated Childhood in 1990s America

Jane Batkin

Part II: Rethinking American Culture Through Social Challenges

Rocko’s Modern Life and the Pains of Early Adulting

Adrián García

Shrek and the Art of Subversion

Chandrama Basu

“Once again, the day is saved”: How the Subversive Feminism of The Powerpuff Girls Permanently Changed Television Animation

David Perlmutter

We Need to Talk About The Lego Movie! Social Commentary and Consumer Culture in the ­­LEGO-verse

Sasha Dilan Krugman

Part III: Modern America and the Transformation of Social Order

“This is me now!” Gene’s Gender Play in Bob’s Burgers

Dan Abitz

Giving Cinderella a Girlfriend: Queerness and Subversion in Non/Disney Fan Videos

Danielle Hart

“Who are you? Who am I!?” The Raunchy Identity Moratorium in Netflix’s Big Mouth

Marcus Mallard

Daria: Still Standing on Our Necks, Then and

David S. Silverman

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index