My Little Po-Mo: Unauthorized Critical Essays on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Season One
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Publisher Description
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, now fully revised and updated, 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!
Customer Reviews
Fascinating
The author examines the first season of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episode by episode, offering analysis and theories about the show's unusual popularity and fan base. The author compares the development of the show to concurrent sociopolitical and cultural events and to various philosophical traditions. The author is clearly a fan of My Little Pony, and his affection for it comes across in the generally relaxed, conversational tone of the essays. He does not hesitate to call the developers of the show to task when he believes they have made errors, though; for example his analysis of the show's handling of racial issues. In all, this is an excellent guide for both fans of the cartoon and for anyone who wonders how a cartoon designed to sell toys to eight-year-old girls developed a following among adolescents and adults.
Sweets
It is fantastic.