It’s Not the End of the World: Postapocalyptic Flourishing in Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time
The scholarship of and around René Girard is mostly very large and very serious. In the Girardian purview, we find a theory concerning no less than the origins of all human life and culture. Alongside this, there are revelations of (literally) biblical proportions and the looming threat of (again, a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2019
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Mimetic theory and film
Year: 2019, Pages: 177-204 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
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| Summary: | The scholarship of and around René Girard is mostly very large and very serious. In the Girardian purview, we find a theory concerning no less than the origins of all human life and culture. Alongside this, there are revelations of (literally) biblical proportions and the looming threat of (again, a completely nonmetaphorical) apocalypse. The television program under analysis in the present chapter is small fry in comparison. Adventure Time is just a children’s cartoon created by a child-like adult called Pendleton Ward. Also, Ward protests—Shakespeare might say too much—that he did not intend to make anything meaningful and that if meaningfulness has occurred in his cartoon, it is entirely by accident. My case, however, is that while some aspects of Adventure Time are indeed small and silly, many other dimensions are large, serious, and extraordinarily Girardian.... |
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| ISBN: | 9781501334863 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Mimetic theory and film
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5040/9781501334863.0014 |
