Pixar x Affective Economics
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
When Hannah and Marcelle go to Disneyland, you can pretty much bank on them returning happier, out some cash, and deep in the throes of processing the experience! So what better return to the pod than an episode about Pixar and Henry Jenkins' theory of affective economics.
Tune in for a conversation, led by Hannah, about CGI, John Lasseter, the impact of Pixar's first CGI feature Toy Story (1999), the fantasy of living outside of capitalism, and what Jenkins' theory of affective economics (Convergence Culture, 2006) can do to help us make sense of it all!
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Works Cited
“Computer Animation Production System.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Animation_Production_System. Visited on 28 April 2026.
“John Lasseter.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lasseter. Visited on 28 April 2026.
“Pixar.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar. Visited on 28 April 2026.
Sandlin, Jennifer A. and Julie Garlen Maudlin. “Disney’s pedagogies of pleasure and the eternal recurrence of whiteness.” Journal of Consumer Culture 17.2 (2017): 397-412. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1177/14695405156023.
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| 0:13.0 | I need a |
| 0:16.0 | mind |
| 0:17.0 | I need a new |
| 0:18.0 | brain |
| 0:19.0 | I want to take a ride |
| 0:20.0 | on a mini train. |
| 0:21.6 | You can have it all at the shopping. |
| 0:30.3 | Hello and welcome to Material Girls, a pop culture podcast that uses critical theory to understand the zeitgeist. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm Marcel Cosman. And I'm Hannah McGregor. And Marcel, went to Disneyland again. That's why I sound like this. |
| 0:46.1 | I know. I know. I screamed too many scrums. We had so much fun, didn't we? We really had an amazing time. |
| 0:55.4 | A colleague of mine asked, I saw her on Monday, and she was like, how are you doing? |
| 1:00.0 | And I was like, I'm exhausted. |
| 1:02.2 | She was like, you were on vacation. |
| 1:04.0 | And I was like, not that kind of vacation. |
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