Essays on Disney

Since the 20th century, America has been subject to waves of feminism, from the suffrage movement to the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1970s. This increasing demand for equality in America stemmed an increasing demand for positive female role models in film, specifically films aimed...

Introduction: By the age of three, children are racially aware and already performing prejudices. (Nigel Benson, 2012) Disney has had a long history of making entertaining movies aimed at children, but during that time, did we notice the racial and disability stereotypes within the movies?...

Children gain an understanding of the concept of sex and gender from a very young age, as early as eighteen months. This is a learnt process through cognitive recognition of the permanency of boyness or girlness – referred to as gender concept. These learnt concepts...

In this New age, there is proposition how each gender should conduct oneself, dress, and accord themselves. Kids that are growing up in the area have a person that thinks is superhuman. For young girls, their role models are Disney princesses. Disney princesses make great...

Everyone has the right to get an insight about the real meaning of their life with a purpose to be happy in the adulthood phase, for which he learns to comprehend the world he is surrounded with in order to get himself integrated socially. However,...

Zootopia, the 2016 animation Disney masterpiece, is the perfect symbolism of the modern myth about a contemporary multiethnic society, where all the animals, prays and predators, live together in peace, in a perfectly functioning society where each animal has its place in economy, politics and...

Disney Animation and their films are a huge part of the entertainment industry in America. Their influence and reach on children stretches throughout years and has many avenues to influence not just with movies but through clothing, games, and toys. Disney has been around for...

Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” and Disney’s 1989 film adaptation differ in a multitude of notable ways, from key elements of plot to those of character. Perhaps the most distinct difference, aside from the highly contrasting endings, is the characterization of...

There are 7.5 billion people in the world, but only few can take the initiative to be a leader amongst many followers. One leader that I have learned quite a bit about over the last couple years is a man who has made dreams come...

With the first generation of Disney Princess movies, the manifestation and establishment of several female archetypes is distinctly obvious. These archetypes can each be defined by several similar properties, which can be analyzed according to whether they are physical attributes or personal characteristics. Such archetypes...

The Disney film Aladdin is a classic. There is no doubt that it is a film the vast majority of the population has seen. No matter what age you are, you have encountered something to do with this film at one point of your life....

The Walt Disney franchise was founded on October 16, 1923 by brothers Roy and Walt Disney. The franchise had somewhat of slow start up until the mid thirties. By 1934 Disney productions wanted to take animation a step further than any other production company. Therefore,...

The San Diego Comic-Con has brought an unexpected surprise and delight for all the Star Wars fans when the announcement about bringing back Star Wars: The Clone Wars series was made by none other than Dave Filoni, creator and producer of the series. This announcement...

The cartoon fantasy gives us an understanding of life from start to finish. We all re-watch our childhood cartoon shows and movies, but do we appreciate its final conclusion where it’s the same happy ending. In Sarah Boxer’s article “Why Are All The Cartoon Mothers...

Little girls have grown up worshipping these perfectly illustrated young women on their TV screen. As much as there are great lessons behind Disney movies; the Disney Princesses were not great role models for young girls. They generated an illusion—a fantasy world for girls that...

Noticing Gender “Gender is the structure of social relations that centers on the reproductive arena, and the set of practices that bring reproductive distinctions between bodies into social processes.” (Connell, Chapter 1, 2009). Unfortunately, gender involves also hierarchy, where we examine inequality in terms of...

The Golden Age (1937-1942) The Golden Era created a new genre of film. Up until now animation was generally seen as a novelty marketed to children. It was comical, with shorts first having no sound or colour it relied on heavy expressions of the characters...

The movie Lion King produced by Walt Disney pictures provides a number of key instances which invoke memories in the bible in the manner the story line has been developed which makes it easier to relate to a number of verses in the bible. The...

In fact, the world divided for the time before the release of the cartoon “The Lion King” in 1994 and the world that changed after the cartoon “The Lion King” – yes, it was a real revolution that changed all of us. And I well...