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Critical Perspective Dissertation Proposal Online Greenlight Review The Development of the Representation of Women Throughout Disney's Animated Feature Films By Danielle Gibbs Dissertation Synopsis Throughout this dissertation I will be exploring and discussing the representation of women, and the development of this representation throughout SATSmee TMA M ACL aor RC LTE 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 SCG) a CL oe LO POR Re ele OR SO a fairy tales, which is to teach morals to young children which can influence their views on life and of people. STR LL OL OD oN RM CRM LAO RSTn SAM Oe ORO STRELA ND Le LS LOL aL LD PAAR META DOTA CLR ROL OR ESS a victim, etc. I will then question and discuss how this can have a Lilet am Ma mT OL DOT Ro A ) CTgcme acm ced KOOL ROMA TRIAD aD OCC XO again and again over several generations, such as the tropes of an CORR Ml Pa RR OOO MOL LOL OLE 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 Tene) TOOL Loa (eT) 0) a-ak oA) Now that the history of storytelling and fairy tales has 1 cx =¥ NR =o sO M901 16 SO UD =O 0S TAO MT 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 SPR Coan eM a C01 oa SCM Rd OOO ITT eh Research Proforma Title: Gender Trouble - Feminism and the Subversion of Identity CAO RRL A (Olea 0-1 orem OTe =X 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 SRR alee Ole eh Oe a Earn ALOT) ) fee Reason for use: Explores, deconstructs and analyses the CDR RAL CMe LOMO OMe SO ACL RR tales and folklore Snare 0) ste SOG COLO) CU a COC DML Da CRO Ea OOM a RS ST ee Sa aN OS Ao) TOL SOL ALS UC eae a CORA) in which they use. Research Proforma Title: True Love's Kiss: Disney Romance from Snow White to Frozen ENACT AE) La OL leila ata Reason for use: Examines and explores Disney's Animated Films to ETeCe eS Tome CeS a) OL Tce OD AOL LAL Seem eloa oa R11 iO) MON Le LTT gender roles and values. Title: Good Girls and Wicked Witches: Changing Representations (Onin RT Se RD Author: Amy M. Davis leila ata Er B1) ne] at OR L00T STSCI SULT TOS Ca On AY and compares their construction and shaped, to an extent, by popular stereotypes and tropes of women.

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