Disney And The Socialization Of Frozen By Walt Disney

Introduction
Frozen is a musical fantasy animation created and produced at Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures on 2013. According to a report by Lynskey in 2014, “Frozen has grossed almost $1.2bn worldwide. It has won Oscars for best song and best animated feature. Disney’s official YouTube clip of Let It Go has racked up more than 223m views; cover versions, mash-ups and parodies amount to hundreds of millions more. The soundtrack has topped the Billboard charts for 13 weeks and counting. Disney’s second-quarter net profit is up 27%. ”Frozen has become a cultural phenomenon take over the world and capture the culture. At the following part, the popular reason of Frozen and how it influences

When considering the history of Disney’s animation, it plays an important role in socialization process for constructing and shaping gender stereotype in society through different themes, storyline, and characters like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, who always waiting for the prince to save her. Likewise Jeanne & Debra (1996) argued that “in most of the animated films, the male characters are usually projected as aggressive, full of action and violent whilst female characters are proved to be passive and useless as well as sub-ordinate to man” . In Frozen, on the contrary, the male characters Kristoff and Prince Hans are only supporting characters for the plot development. Elsa and Anna positioned as empowered against the traditional Disney setting of masculine heroes. They pursue their goals, they are leaders and exercise power, and they save each other and everyone else in their country. It can be seems that societal expectations of feminism and gender roles is becoming a significant issue and are continually improving for the

It can be observed that Frozen is a cultural product due to its huge cultural influences through internet or other related commercial products. Its popularity is not only because it presents producer’s intensions to as a socializing agent and indoctrinating force and the unpredictability and changing of storyline. But also credit to the reaction of fandom and participatory culture, those actual actions has power to influence the individuals and society. Frozen tried to as a resistance of culture to against the cultural hegemony in some way, however, some concept of hegemony like the scandalized beauty of female is