“If every porkchop were perfect, we wouldn’t have hotdogs”: how Cartoon Network's Steven Universe conceptualises and communicates the issues of mental health

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Fong, Wai Kei
• مؤلفون آخرون: Kevin Chew
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Nanyang Technological University 2025
• الموضوعات: Arts and Humanities; Mental health; Cartoon network; Steven Universe; Queer temporality; Healing; Film studies
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/183300
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Steven Universe depicts the eponymous protagonist’s negotiations not only with his personal life but also with threats from the Gem Homeworld. Hailed as the first Cartoon Network property created by an openly queer woman, the bulk of the show’s existing literature centres on themes of queerness and...