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 Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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Prelude: The Three Levels of Adventure Time

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"One isn't purely defined by their sex or gender": Gender, Sexuality, and Representation in Adventure Time

Be More Than the Binary: Experiencing Queer Subjectivity with

Olivia M. Vogt

From Censorship to "Obsidian": A Critical and Historical Look at "Bubbline"

Mage Hadley

Rainbows and Unicorns: The Influence of Bubbline on Apocalyptic Film and Animation

Steven Holmes

"Get your hero on, dude!" Charting Jake's Growth as a Positive Masculine Role Model

Bridget M. Blodgett and Anastasia Salter

Yellow Voices and Rainbow Bodies: Accent, Multilingualism, and the Politics of Representation in Adventure Time

Camille Chane

"Behind this curtain of patterns...": The Philosophy of

Mikhail Bakhtin in the Land of Ooo: The Carnivalesque, Heteroglossia, and the Fun That Never Ends

Aaron Kerner and Birdy Wei-Ting Hung

"And we will happen again and again": Adventure Time and the Sisyphean Struggle

Sequoia Stone

What Time Is It? Postmodernity! Postmodern Praxis in Adventure Time

Jenine Oosthuizen

Making a New Meaning for Man in The Land of OOO: Object-Oriented Ontology, the NonHuman, and Difference

in Distant Lands

Al Valentín

"Mind Games": Mental and Emotional Toiling

Too Close for Comfort: On Finn the Human and Princess Bubblegum's Relationship

Zhi Hwee Goh

Of Lacan and Lemons: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Season Six's "The Mountain"

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Trauma and the Body in Adventure Time

Steven Kielich

"Is that where creativity comes from?" Adventure Time and the Artistic Medium

The Japanese Spirit and Aesthetic in Western Animation: The Influence of Anime on Adventure Time

Kendra N. Sheehan

"Bad Jubies": Giving Value to the Intangible in Artistic Professions

Catalina Millán Scheiding

About the Contributors

Index