Critical Perspective Dissertation
Proposal Online Greenlight Review
The Development of the Representation
of Women Throughout Disney's
Animated Feature Films
By Danielle GibbsDissertation Synopsis
Throughout this dissertation I will be exploring
and discussing the representation of women, and
the development of this representation throughout
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Animation Studios, as well as the key ideas and
theories surrounding the subject.
I will explore and discuss this topic with
examples of films from the studio's earliest
animated films to it's most recent, the mother,
daughters, step mother tropes in old fairy tales,
and the ideology of gender.Chapter One
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fairy tales, which is to teach morals to young children which can influence
their views on life and of people.
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a victim, etc. I will then question and discuss how this can have a
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again and again over several generations, such as the tropes of an
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become the norm representation of female gender.Chapter Two
In Chapter Two I will discuss how these tropes and stereotypes
of the female gender are constructed upon ideologies of women.
I will discuss key feminist theories and Psychoanalysis of
the gender and the mother/daughter relationships, and works
from Nancy Chodorow and Judith Butler. I will relate these
theories and analysis to the storytelling tropes discussed
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Now that the history of storytelling and fairy tales has
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analysis of the gender of women has too been established,
I can then proceed into Chapter Three. The motive of Chapter
Three is to take all of the key points and theories made
and discussed in chapters one and two and relate them to
several Disney films. Many of Disney's early animated films
were adaptations from old fairy tales, and therefore will be
filled with tropes of evil hags/step mothers, fairy godmothers
and passive women, however I will also compare these early
films to more recent entries, and I will discuss how over
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Title: Gender Trouble - Feminism and the
Subversion of Identity
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Reason for use: An important and key piece of text
of feminist theory.
Title: The Reproduction of Mothering
Author: Nancy Chodorow
Chapter: Two and Three
Reason for use: Analysis of Gender, links psyche and
culture together to explore the mother-daughter
relationship and female psychology.Research Proforma
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Reason for use: Explores, deconstructs and analyses the
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tales and folklore
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in which they use.Research Proforma
Title: True Love's Kiss: Disney Romance from Snow White to Frozen
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Reason for use: Examines and explores Disney's Animated Films to
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gender roles and values.
Title: Good Girls and Wicked Witches: Changing Representations
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Author: Amy M. Davis
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and compares their construction and shaped, to an
extent, by popular stereotypes and tropes of women.