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Good Girls and Wicked Witches: Changing Representations of Women in Disney's Feature Animation

Good Girls and Wicked Witches: Changing Representations of Women in Disney's Feature Animation

Davis, Amy M.

Paperback

Film StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0861966732
ISBN13: 9780861966738
Publisher: John Libbey Pub
Published: Feb 20 2007
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In Good Girls and Wicked Witches, Amy M. Davis re-examines the notion that Disney heroines are rewarded for passivity. Davis proceeds from the assumption that, in their representations of femininity, Disney films both reflected and helped shape the attitudes of the wider society, both at the time of their first release and subsequently. Analyzing the construction of (mainly human) female characters in the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio between 1937 and 2001, she attempts to establish the extent to which these characterizations were shaped by wider popular stereotypes. Davis argues that it is within the most constructed of all moving images of the female form-the heroine of the animated film-that the most telling aspects of Woman as the subject of Hollywood iconography and cultural ideas of American womanhood are to be found.

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