Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos
New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts
Michelle Ann Abate
- 222 pages
- English
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Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos
New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts
Michelle Ann Abate
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Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's "Peanuts" sheds new light on the past importance, ongoing significance, and future relevance of a comics series that millions adore: Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts. More specifically, it examines a fundamental feature of the series: its core cast of characters. In chapters devoted to Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Franklin, Pigpen, Woodstock, and Linus, author Michelle Ann Abate explores the figures who made Schulz's strip so successful, so influential, andâabove allâso beloved. In so doing, the book gives these iconic figures the in-depth critical attention that they deserve and for which they are long overdue. Abate considers the exceedingly familiar characters from Peanuts in markedly unfamiliar ways. Drawing on a wide array of interpretive lenses, Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos invites readers to revisit, reexamine, and rethink characters that have been household names for generations. Through this process, the chapters demonstrate not only how Schulz's work remains a subject of acute critical interest more than twenty years after the final strip appeared, but also how it embodies a rich and fertile site of social, cultural, and political meaning.
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Table des matiĂšres
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Character Studies: The Peanuts Gang, Reconsidered
- Chapter 1. âSometimes My Hand Shakes So Much I Have to Hold My Wrist to Drawâ: Charles M. Schulz and Disability
- Chapter 2. Whatâs the Frequency, Charlie Brown?: Sound Waves, Music, and the Zigzag Shirt
- Chapter 3. âWhy Canât I Have a Normal Dog Like Everyone Else?â: Snoopy as Canineâand Feline
- Chapter 4. I Love Lucy: The Fussbudget and the First Lady of Sitcoms
- Chapter 5. Franklin and Pig-Pen: The Aesthetics of Blackness and Dirt
- Chapter 6. Chirping âBout my Generation: Woodstock, Youth Culture, and Innocence
- Epilogue. Peanuts to Watch Out for: Linus Van Pelt, Alison Bechdel, and the Legacy of Charles M. Schulz
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author