My Little Po-Mo Unauthorized Critical Essays on My Little Pony |
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| Author:
| Blue, Jed A. |
| Series title: | My Little Po-Mo Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4923-2356-3 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $12.99 |
Book Description:
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Grown men and women watch a show created to sell toys to four-year-old girls. Are they confused deviants? Rebels standing bravely against repressive social norms of gender and age? Or a circle of friends just trying to have fun?This first volume of essays adapted from the blog My Little Po-Mo combines a critical study of the first season of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic with ethnographic examination of its adult fans to explore these questions and the show which inspired...
More DescriptionGrown men and women watch a show created to sell toys to four-year-old girls. Are they confused deviants? Rebels standing bravely against repressive social norms of gender and age? Or a circle of friends just trying to have fun?This first volume of essays adapted from the blog My Little Po-Mo combines a critical study of the first season of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic with ethnographic examination of its adult fans to explore these questions and the show which inspired them.This volume includes:*Critical essays on every episode of the first season*An examination of the series as a whole as a feminist work*A brief history of the last fifty years of American animated television*Essays on the psychology and experiences of adult fans in general, and the experiences of the oft-overlooked adult women in particular*And more!