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Good Girls and Wicked Witches: Women in Disney's Feature Animation (Paperback)
$21.50 - Save $3.45 (13%) - RRP $24.95 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Good Girls and Wicked WitchesAmerican womanhood as seen through the eyes of Disney
Full description- Publisher: JOHN LIBBEY & CO LTD
- Published: 20 February 2007
- Format: Paperback 274 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Film Theory & Criticism | Animated Films | Gender Studies: Women | Television & Film
- ISBN 13: 9780861966738 ISBN 10: 0861966732
- Sales rank: 190,325
Full description for Good Girls and Wicked Witches
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.
