Good Girls And Wicked Witches: Women in Disney's Feature Animation

Good Girls And Wicked Witches: Women in Disney's Feature Animation
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 formâ€"the heroine of the animated filmâ€"that the most telling aspects of Woman as the subject of Hollywood iconography and cultural ideas of American womanhood are to be found.
Customer Review: Enthralling!
If you think the ideal of American womanhood was established by Doris Day and other goody two shoes, then think again and read this enthralling exploration of the women in the Walt Disney films from Sleeping Beauty to Alice in Wonderland to the Little Mermaid and Pocahontas.


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