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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Amy M. (Amy Michele)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disney, Walt, 1901-1966.

Disney characters--Social aspects.

Disney characters.

Disney, Walt, 1901-1966--Criticism and interpretation.

Disney, Walt.

Women in motion pictures.

Animated films--History and criticism.

Animated films.

Walt Disney Productions.

Walt Disney Company.

Criticism and interpretation.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

vi, 274 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Women in Disney's feature animation

Place of Publication:

Eastleigh, U.K. : John Libbey Pub. ; Bloomington, IN : Distributed in North America by Indiana University Press, [2006]

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.

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.

Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Davis, Amy M. (Amy Michele) Good girls and wicked witches.

ISBN:

0861966732

9780861966738

OCLC:

85259511