And when a Boss Baby balloon floated on to the 2021 Macy’s Parade, a transfixed crowd reverently chanted “Boss Baby” in near-religious supplication.ĭespite this semi-ironic popularity, The Boss Baby follows a plot that can be difficult to parse, not that that would discourage academics. K-pop band BTS member Jimin learned English by watching the movie again and again. The film grossed half a billion dollars at the box office and has since been spun off into a 2021 sequel and four seasons of the Netflix television series. Regardless of why, there’s definitely a strong appeal at work.

The Boss Baby follows a plot that can be difficult to parse, not that that would discourage academics …

According to one of the symposium’s presenters, it’s just the continuation of a long historical lineage of boss babies – or παῖς-ἄναξ, “child leaders”, in the ancient Greek – stretching from Astyanax from The Iliad, Hikaru Genji from The Tale of Genji, King Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York. “Frankly, we don’t know exactly what you’ll find,” the symposium’s website admitted, “but we know it will leave you thinking, ‘Yep, that was definitely a symposium dedicated to the 2017 film titled The Boss Baby.’”īut why The Boss Baby? Depends on who you ask. They were joined at the end for an informal chat with JP Karliak, voice of Boss Baby in the Netflix television series The Boss Baby: Back in Business, and its showrunner, or “Boss Baby boss baby”, Brandon Sawyer. Over the course of an entire afternoon, eight academics delivered presentations centred around three themes: Situating the Boss Baby in Myth and Media Personal and Professional Growth: Work and Play in The Boss Baby and “Not enough love for the two of us”: Birth, Motherhood, and the Lack Thereof. A still from the first annual Boss Baby symposium

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