Animated Parables

Download or read book Animated Parables written by Terry Lindvall and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2024 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Generally neglected for their rhetorical power, animated cartoons provide a treasure chest of provocative and comic gems that teach about the seven deadly sins. After a brief history of parables and fables, icons and visual communication, this book explores each of the seven deadly sins as represented in short animated films from Disney, Pixar, the Warner Brothers, and international animators. Terry Lindvall argues that attending to the tropes of the cartoons leads to exemplary and revelatory discoveries, to seeing more of what pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust mean across cultures and historical eras.