Assignment: Four pages, double spaced, plus works cited. Draft self-reflection paper on key learnings from the evaluation of Disney films. Paper must address the key learnings listed below.
Disney films viewed: Aladdin (1992), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Cinderella (1950), Coco (2017), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Lion King (1995), The Little Mermaid (1989), Moana (2016), Mulan (1998), Pocahontas (1995), The Princess and the Frog (1009), and Snow White (1937).
Key Learnings:
Explain how difference is socially constructed.
Using historical and contemporary examples, describe how perceived differences, combined with unequal distribution of power across economic, social, and political institutions, result in discrimination
Analyze ways in which the interactions of social categories, such as race, ethnicity, social class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and age, are related to difference, power, and discrimination in the United States.
Discuss and explain general concepts and themes in feminist film and media studies.(MUST INLCUDE Disney as a Public Pedagogy and intersectionality of oppression.)
Analyze the intersections of gender, race, class, sexuality, and nation.
Demonstrate the necessary skills to historically and socially contextualize media images and representations, using a feminist framework.
Demonstrate a theoretical framework for critical analysis of Disney representations in terms of gender, race, class, sexuality, and nation.
Analyze power, particularly in terms of structural and institutionalized forms of oppression.
Recognize other, related themes in relation to the Disney canon, including colonialism, conquest, militarism, globalization, war, and genocide.
Recognize the distinctions between Disneys animated representations and the experiences of actual people and communities in various parts of the world.
Demonstrate writing skills in feminist critical analysis on the politics of representation.
Demonstrate skills to be able to talk with others, including children viewers, about the power and social meanings of Disney images.
The following textbooks were referenced in the course, and will therefore be relevant to this assignment:
Bell, Elizabeth, and Laura Sells. From Mouse to Mermaid the Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Indiana Univ. Press, 2012.
Giroux, Henry A., and Grace Pollock. The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.
Cheu, Johnson, ed. Diversity in Disney Films: Critical Essays on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and Disability, McFarland, 2012
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