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Catherine Clement of Northeastern University proposed that the Boss Baby actually has a lot in common with child leaders in ancient mythology
Robin Pawlett-Howell, a philosophy Ph.D. candidate from the University of York, memorably situated The Boss Baby as a work of existentialism, suggesting that this little tyke’s identity as “Boss” prevents him from finding freedom from despair as a “Baby.”
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“This is for other people to cultivate and express this excitement of low-stakes discourse taken to an extreme.”
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the influence of queer theorist Jack Halberstam’s theories of low culture. “I like his approach: not trying to look at these texts as if they are serious, but getting beyond needing to be taken seriously in the first place,” Levander reflected, also noting that Halberstam views “thinking” as a form of “playing” — a sandbox-friendly endeavor, to push the baby metaphor to its breaking point