Talking Mass Communication Perspectives - "Muted Group Theory in Pixar Animation"

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Garret Castleberry

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The 2025 Summer Movie Season interruption CONTINUES with a second reflection on Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another (Warner Bros. 2025). How does PTA's latest film rate as a Border Western, and what character themes resonate with contemporary tensions in America? Host Garret Castleberry provides an armchair rhetorician second screening review of PTA's latest masterwork now in cinemas. Hosts: Garret Castleberry Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engin...

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Talking Mass Communication Perspectives - "Muted Group Theory in Pixar Animation"

Special Topics in Media

42 minutes

4 months ago

Talking Mass Communication Perspectives - "Muted Group Theory in Pixar Animation"

Welcome to the "Talking Mass Communication Perspectives" season of Special Topics in Media. This week Garret Castleberry and Season 13 guest cohost Annabeth Fehrle discuss Muted Group Theory and how it can be interpreted within the narrative framework of a trio of Disney-Pixar animated feature films: Brave (2012), WALL-E (2008) and The Incredibles (2004). Reading Reference: Bruce W. Finklea & Sally Bennett Hardig. "Seen but Not Heard--Exploring Muted Group Theory in The Incred...