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An in-depth view of the way popular female stereotypes were reflected in—and were shaped by—the portrayal of women in Disney's animated features.
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.
"A fascinating compilation of essays in which [Davis] examined the way Disney has treated female characters throughout its history." —PopMatters
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.
"A fascinating compilation of essays in which [Davis] examined the way Disney has treated female characters throughout its history." —PopMatters
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Index
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ABC Channel 145
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, (1949) 22, 23, 90, 97, 98, 147, 151, 225
Aladdin (1992) 8, 9, 14, 102, 171, 173, 176, 181–183
Aladdin 181–183
Alexander, Lloyd 156, 157, 160
Algar, Jim 140
Alice (Alice in Wonderland) 84, 104–107, 159, 225
Alice (TV Series, 1976–1985) 170
Alice Comedies 73, 84, 135
Alice Doesn’t Live Here
Anymore, (1974) 163
Alice in Wonderland, (1951) 14, 23, 24, 90, 104, 159
“Alice’s Orphan” (1926) 73
“Alice’s Wonderland”(1923) 71, 72
Ally McBeal (TV Series, 1997–2002) 7
Amelia, Captain (Treasure Planet) 207, 210–213, 218, 219, 225
American Dream Machine 20
American Society 180
– and women 2, 116–121, 161–167, 222–224
– depictions of women 5, 6, 7–15, 169–171
Amos (The Fox and The Hound) 153
An American Tail, (1986) 91
Anastasia (Cinderella) 172
Anderson, Bill 140
Anderson, Hans Christian 10, 13
Animation
– a brief history 33–60
– film 43, 171–176
– and spectatorship 88
– as an art form 41
– techniques 40, 42
– Golden Age 54–60
– mechanics of 17–33
– pre-cinematic 34–37
– how to make an animated film 40–44
– early cinematic 37–40
– the Fleischer Studio 44–84
Anita (One Hundred and One Dalmatians) 93, 97–100, 137, 224, 227
Anti-nuclear campaign 119
Ariel (The Little Merma...
Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Film as a Cultural Mirror
- A Brief History of Animation
- The Early Life of Walt Disney and the Beginnings of the Disney Studio, 1901–1937
- Disney Films 1937–1967: The “Classic” Years
- Disney Films 1967–1988: The “Middle” Era
- Disney Films 1989–2005: The “Eisner” Era
- Conclusion
- Disney’s full–length animated feature films
- Disney films analysed in this study, with plot summaries335
- Bibliography
- Filmography336
- Index
- Endnotes