Good Girls and Wicked Witches

Changing Representations of Women in Disney's Feature Animation, 1937-2001

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Amy M. Davis

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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.

Author Biography:

Amy M. Davis is a lecturer in the School of Media and Performing Arts and a course director for Film Studies at the University of Ulster, Coleraine. She is author of several articles on the subject of Disney feature animation.

Release date Australia

February 20th, 2007

Author

Amy M. Davis

Brand

Disney

Collection

Australia

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

280

Dimensions

152x229x20

ISBN-13

9780861966738

Product ID

2253290

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