The taming of the Bronies: animals, autism and fandom as therapeutic performance

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dc.contributor.authorPramaggiore, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-30T11:34:50Z
dc.date.available2018-04-30T11:34:50Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractIn defining and defending the Brony fandom, scholars and journalists emphasise the way these primarily adult male fans of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic challenge traditional gender norms. These accounts fail to examine the significance of the horse to the Bronies’ bid for non-normative masculinities. This article focuses on the implicitly therapeutic function of the animated equine, reading the fandom’s discourse about itself in two documentaries within the context of a contemporary (and often antifeminist) rhetoric that links adolescent masculinity to forms of disability that are ameliorated through Equine Assisted Therapy. This therapeutic resonance—based on the characteristic movement of horses—is situated within a broader history of cinema and visual culture in which horses have typically been recruited as vehicles of physical and psychic transport.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationPramaggiore, M. (2015) 'The taming of the Bronies: animals, autism and fandom as therapeutic performance', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 9. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.9.01en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.9.01
dc.identifier.endpage22
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued9
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage6
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5903
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue9/HTML/ArticlePramaggiore.html
dc.rights© 2015, The Author(s)en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectBronyen
dc.subjectFandomen
dc.subjectHorseen
dc.subjectDisabilityen
dc.subjectEquine assisted therapyen
dc.subjectNon-normative masculinitiesen
dc.subjectMy Little Pony: Friendship is Magicen
dc.titleThe taming of the Bronies: animals, autism and fandom as therapeutic performanceen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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