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Good girls and wicked witches : women in Disney's feature animation / Amy M. Davis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Eastleigh, U.K. : John Libbey Pub. ; Bloomington, IN : Distributed in North America by Indiana University Press, c2006.Description: vi, 274 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0861966732 (pbk.)
  • 9780861966738 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Women in Disney's feature animation
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 741.5973 DIS
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.
Summary: 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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Standard Loan Clonmel Library Main Collection 741.5973 DIS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100533018
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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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-262) and index.

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.

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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • 1 Film as a Cultural Mirror
  • 2 A Brief History of Animation
  • 3 The Early Life of Walt Disney and the Beginnings of the Disney Studio, 1901-1937
  • 4 Disney Films 1937-1967: The "Classic" Years
  • 5 Disney Films 1967-1988: The "Middle" Era
  • 6 Disney Films 1989-2005: The "Eisner" Era
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1 Disney's full-length animated feature films
  • Appendix 2 Disney films analysed in this study, with plot summaries
  • Appendix 3 Bibliography
  • Appendix 4 Filmography

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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.

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