Disney Film Analysis
analytical Essay
1043 words
For decades Disney has been the source of happy endings, fairytales, and family friendly stories for children of all ages. These stories range from realistic and familiar, to the eye-catching magical fairytale. The key to each of these stories are the happy endings brought about by each of the characters unique personalities and dreams. Disney’s films are attempted to provide children with the basic understanding of wrong versus right, but instead influences our society’s beliefs and awareness. Although Disney’s efforts to provide the basic morals to our children are misleading and affect our society strongly, they also contain the use of racism in a form which shows the major differences between characters. The once admired and well-known characters are seemed to be recognized by their species, ethnicity and even their social class. Disney films have taken out of context and have persuaded their viewers understanding of racial stereotyping, which is thoroughly explained in Henry Giroux and Grace Pollock’s novel, The Mouse that Roared. They bring awareness to the underlying racial stereotyping in Disney films, which deeply affect our societies understanding today. Giroux and Pollock bring into perception these admired and regularly watched films through precise examples and racist rendering of the specific characters species and ethnicities which strongly influence our society and lead children to intake these negative influences.
On account of Disney’s huge recognition through films, every film produced by Disney will be reviewed by millions. Giroux points out that the underlying racial stereotyping in the form of slave-labor is easily caught by the eye in Disney’s film Dumbo. According to Nelson, the racist stereotyping reveal...
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... To counter-act these negative interpretations, Disney produced a film in 2009, The Frog Princess, which introduced Disney’s first African-American princess. The degree of racism can range from person to person, but only we are to choose whether we enjoy watching a film or not.
Even though the production of Disney’s film The Frog Princess is a huge step forward to show the equality of all culturals and ethnicities, it just shows that racial components which were once overlooked by most parents and children are now a wide spread controversy. Giroux thoroughly explains the effect Disney films has on the youth, “Rather, it points to the need to address in meaningful and rigorous ways the role of fantasy, desire, and innocence in securing particular ideological interests, legitimating specific social relations, and providing the content of public memory” (Giroux 132).
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how disney's films are misleading and affect society strongly, but also contain the use of racism in a form which shows the major differences between characters.
- Analyzes how racial stereotyping in the form of slave-labor is easily caught by the eye in disney's film dumbo.
- Analyzes how giroux points out racially coded languages and accents which were displayed in disney's film aladdin.
- Analyzes how disney's films are misleading and affect society strongly, but also contain the use of racism in a form which shows the major differences between characters.
- Analyzes how racial stereotyping in the form of slave-labor is easily caught by the eye in disney's film dumbo.
- Analyzes how giroux points out racially coded languages and accents which were displayed in disney's film aladdin.
- Analyzes how giroux's recognition of racially coded representations is evident in disney’s film the lion king.
- Analyzes how disney's film the lion king portrays racial stereotypes and racially coded languages, but older disney films teach children valuable lessons that could be racist and disrespectful.
- Analyzes how disney's film the frog princess shows that racial components which were once overlooked by most parents and children are now a wide spread controversy.
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- Analyzes how frozen and brave are hailed for their progressiveness in feminism. feminists believe that not every girl or young woman needs a man in their life.
- Analyzes how disney's portrayal of different cultures can be racist. in aladdin, jasmine and the genie, they all had american accents.
1045 wordsRead More - An Analysis of “Disney’s Politically Correct Pocahontas”analytical essaySixteen years after premiering as Disney’s thirty-third animated film, Pocahontas still incites excitement and wonder within those who wish for nothing more than to be a Disney princess. As Disney’s most notable attempt at political correctness, Pocahontas was created to entertain while attempting to maintain authenticity in regards to historical accuracy and in its fairness of depicting Native American culture. Jacquelyn Kilpatrick, the author of “Disney’s ‘Politically Correct’ Pocahontas”, feels the movie not only failed at being historically accurate but that it fell far short of being politically correct. The article, which appeared in the Fall, 1995 issue of Cineaste, contends the Disney production was duty bound in preserving the integrity of the Pocahontas legend and being both multiculturally and socially inoffensive. However, if being politically correct and constantly factual within any version of media made for entertainment were the standard, we would be left with documentaries and non-fiction. Artistic license allows for a literal account of events to become an engaging, accessible production.
In this essay, the author
- Argues that disney's "politically correct" pocahontas failed at being historically accurate and was culturally and socially inoffensive.
- Argues that disney should be held accountable for reinforcing antiquated ideals and promote healthy, realistic gender equality.
- Explains that disney's pocahontas portrays a dreamy, idealistic situation in which early settlers and the native americans were able to resolve differences having zero causalities and an insignificant amount of confrontations
- Argues that disney's "politically correct" pocahontas failed at being historically accurate and was culturally and socially inoffensive.
- Argues that disney should be held accountable for reinforcing antiquated ideals and promote healthy, realistic gender equality.
- Explains that disney's pocahontas portrays a dreamy, idealistic situation in which early settlers and the native americans were able to resolve differences having zero causalities and an insignificant amount of confrontations
- Analyzes how kilpatrick's informal article effectively argues the always-relevant ethnic equality and gender biases in contemporary media.
1207 wordsRead More - Race And Femininity In Disney Filmsanalytical essayLacroix discusses films like: Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Pocahontas, and The Hunch Back of Notre Dame. She discusses the consumerism in the world surrounding these Disney films and also the different representations of race and femininity in the said films. LaCroix makes valid points in that “American society constructs itself as objective, rational, and civilized by it’s orientalization of minority women.” She brings up the fact that female characters like Belle and Ariel have nearly the same features as more oriental looking characters like Pocahontas and Jasmine. The difference is how the body movement is portrayed. Where Belle and Ariel are less active characters Jasmine and Pocahontas are constantly moving and active
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes lacroix's argument that american society constructs itself as objective, rational, and civilized by its orientalization of minority women.
- Analyzes lacroix's argument that american society constructs itself as objective, rational, and civilized by its orientalization of minority women.
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