Constructions of masculinity in Adult Swim's The venture bros.

• Main Author: Garcia, Feliks José
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Gender; Masculinity; Animation Studies; Television studies; The Venture Bros; Media studies; Gender performance; Masquerade; Muscularity; Hybrid masculinity
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-08-6241

The increasingly popular Adult Swim series, The Venture Bros. (2003-present), created by Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick, is an animated series that interrogates established paradigms of masculinity. Combining narrative elements that are easily attributed to American action films with those of adventure cartoons, the creators of The Venture Bros. create a world where comic book and fantasy adventures coexist. The scope of this thesis narrows and focuses on the ways in which representations of masculinity are constructed and function within the series. What are the various types of masculinity represented in the series? Are the representations of masculinity reproductions of hegemonic masculinity? How is an awareness of dominant representations of masculinity and maleness expressed in The Venture Bros.? This thesis explores how previous scholarship on discourses of dominant representations of male masculinity sheds light on ways to analyze the various masculinities in The Venture Bros. === text