Analyzing Adventure Time

Paul A. Thomas is a library specialist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He holds a PhD in library and information management from Emporia State University.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPaul A. ThomasPrelude: The Three Levels of Adventure TimePaul A. Thomas“One isn’t purely defined by their sex or gender”: Gender, Sexuality, and Representation in Adventure TimeBe More Than the Binary: Experiencing Queer Subjectivity withOlivia M. VogtFrom Censorship to “Obsidian”: A Critical and Historical Look at “Bubbline”Mage HadleyRainbows and Unicorns: The Influence of Bubbline on Apocalyptic Film and AnimationSteven Holmes“Get your hero on, dude!” Charting Jake’s Growth as a Positive Masculine Role ModelBridget M. Blodgett and Anastasia SalterYellow Voices and Rainbow Bodies: Accent, Multilingualism, and the Politics of Representation in Adventure TimeCamille Chane“Behind this curtain of patterns…”: The Philosophy ofMikhail Bakhtin in the Land of Ooo: The Carnivalesque, Heteroglossia, and the Fun That Never EndsAaron Kerner and Birdy Wei-Ting Hung“And we will happen again and again”: Adventure Time and the Sisyphean StruggleSequoia StoneWhat Time Is It? Postmodernity! Postmodern Praxis in Adventure TimeJenine OosthuizenMaking a New Meaning for Man in The Land of OOO: Object-Oriented Ontology, the NonHuman, and Difference in Distant LandsAl Valentín“Mind Games”: Mental and Emotional ToilingToo Close for Comfort: On Finn the Human and Princess Bubblegum’s RelationshipZhi Hwee GohOf Lacan and Lemons: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Season Six’s “The Mountain”Paul A. ThomasTrauma and the Body in Adventure TimeSteven Kielich“Is that where creativity comes from?” Adventure Time and the Artistic MediumThe Japanese Spirit and Aesthetic in Western Animation: The Influence of Anime on Adventure TimeKendra N. Sheehan“Bad Jubies”: Giving Value to the Intangible in Artistic ProfessionsCatalina Millán ScheidingAbout the ContributorsIndex

“An incredible look at an often-overlooked staple of Cartoon Network, this text will provide scholars (and scholarly-minded fans) of Adventure Time a paradigmatic examination of the program.”—David S. Silverman, Kansas State University-Salina