Good Girls and Wicked Witches

Good Girls and Wicked Witches Women in Disney's Feature Animation

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780861966738
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Imprint: John Libbey Publishing
Pub date:
DEWEY: 791.436522
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 274
Weight: 410g
Height: 226mm
Width: 174mm
Spine width: 18mm