When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation, Metamorphosis, and Development
Title:
When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation, Metamorphosis, and Development
Author:Lois R. Kuznets
Date published:1994
Publisher:New Haven: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300056451
Description
The author studies the role of toy characters in the works ranging from older classics like Pinocchio, Winnie the Pooh, and The Velveteen Rabbit, through modern texts like The Mouse and His Child and the popular comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, to the latest science fiction featuring robots and cyborgs. The author examines how toys can often take on a secret, sensual, even carnivalesque life of their own and how they tend to evoke a romantic nostalgia that supports the underlying values and hierarchies of a patriarchal society.