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Instead of all the Disney Princess clichés we all grew up to love, with the repetitive plot of prince charming rescuing the princess in a tower and showing true love’s first kiss, there’s a new twist on the typical fairy tale. Frozen, a screen play written and directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck in 2011. It was produced by Walt Disney Animation studios (Wikipedia, 2016) then released by Walt Disney pictures on November 27, 2013(Wikipedia, 2016). The Disney film Frozen is a good example of how

Walt Disney was born in Chicago on December 5, 1901. Because of the violence in Chicago and because it was hard to make money, in 1906 his father Elias Disney purchased forty-eight acres of farmland in Marceline, Missouri. It was northeast of Kansas city. Every single family member was expected to do chores on the farm. Walt was amazed by the ducks, pigs, and hens his dad raised and thought of them as personal friends. The memories of these animals greatly influenced how they were portrayed with

Not only do you see the meaning of beauty that Disney presents in his protagonists, but his antagonists too. Disney presents beauty trumps everything else is in The Little Mermaid. Ursula, the antagonist of the story, is depicted as fat, ugly, and mean. This leaves you with the thought that it is okay to judge a book by its cover. Without knowing the inside truth to Ursula, she is assumed to be the mean one who takes something very valuable away from Ariel. In Snow White, the old, unattractive woman

“romantic” he was. True love can not be based off of only romance, unlike what many Disney movie portray. In the movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, where Snow White escapes the jealous queen and hides with seven dwarfs, she is saved by a prince which she then falls in love with. This is the storyline that many of Walt Disney’s movies are based off of such as Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Hercules. In Disney movies, the princess is typically saved by a prince and they live happily ever after

every action that each character plays. Without sound, animation would not have the same effect as it does with sound. Having the appropriate sound effects per action is gives the audience a feeling of comfort and assures the enjoyment of the picture. Animation with sounds provides us with not just a sequence of moving illustrations, but so much more, in fact, much more to where the storyline being portrayed within the animation gives us a meaningful experience and expands our imaginations. It

artists were ushered out of Disney Studios in Burbank, California on May 28th, 1941; they were then fired for being part of the Screen Cartoonist Guild.1 Once the news spread to the other eight hundred plus artists and four hundred plus Disney workers, many were outraged and further gathered together to make derisive posters and stir up compelling speeches to support of their fellow colleagues. On May 29th, 1941 three hundred employees went on strike.2 The few loyal to the Disney Corporation gathered with

have experienced Disney in one shape or another in their lifetime. Whether it was the movies or Disneyland, it did not fail to reach the hearts of its audience. While Disney’s target audience was young children, it also captivated the hearts of its older viewers. Countless individuals, however, do not realize all the technology and effort involved in making a mere ten minute short film, let alone a full length movie. Furthermore, they also do not know how far the technology for Disney productions has

Edward Said in his book Orientalism, criticizes and confronts the ideas of truth and representation, “it is not ‘truth’ but representation” (p. 29). Our representations of the world do not always hold truth. Western countries, such as the US, have sculpted a media in which the enemy of the East, is at the forefront and represents an entire population and geographical location as something to fear. Said explains this as an “us vs. them” scenario “On the one hand there are Westerners, and on the other

Many of us are familiar with the original Disney animated movie, Beauty and the Beast. Maybe you even know the new, more up-to-date version of the highly recognizable film. The original Beauty and the Beast was produced in 1991 by Walt Disney Pictures, a young animated princess was created. In 2017, Walt Disney decided to cooperate with Bill Condon to give us a more modern princess. (Beauty and the Beast 2017) Many of us can name a common, or simple, difference between these two characters; one is

90’s child, Disney films played an important role in my childhood. As a female viewer, Disney princesses played a bigger role in deciding which Disney films to watch. As the years went on, new Disney princesses were introduced with different styles compared to the traditional Disney princesses. A traditional Disney princess can be defined as one of the first princesses Walt Disney created, specifically during the 20th century, and the newer princesses can be defined as the princesses Disney created in