2017-2018-1

ANAMBA881-2

_Szeminárium, _Gyakorlati jegy

ANAMBA88, Any Course Seminar (Excluding Language)

ANAMBA88, Any Course Seminar (Excluding Language)

Angol-Amerikai Intézet (BTK Bölcsészettudományi Kar)

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Week 1: introduction, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Week 2: Cinderella (1950)
Week 3: Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Week 4: One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
Week 5: The Little Mermaid (1989)
Week 6: Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Week 7: Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Week 8: Mulan (1998)
Week 9: Cars (2006), Bolt (2008)
Week 10: WALL•E (2008)
Week 11: Tangled (2010)
Week 12: Brave (2012)
Week 13: Frozen (2013), summing up
Week 14: final test

Suggested readings:

Bell, Elizabeth et al ed. From Mouse to Mermaid. The Politics of Film, Gender and Culture. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1995.: Zipes, Jack. “Breaking the Disney Spell.” 21-42., Haas, Robert. “Disney Does Dutch.” 72-85., Miller, Susan and Greg Rode. “The Movie You See, The Movie You Don’t.” 86-103., Bell, Elizabeth. “Somatexts at the Disney Shop.” 107-124., Murphy, Patrick D. “The Whole Wide World Was Scrubbed Clean.” 125-136., Jeffords, Susan. “The Curse of Masculinity.” 161-172. Sells, Laura. “Where Do the Mermaids Stand?” 175-192., Haas, Lynda. “Eighty-Six the Mother.” 193-211., Cuomo, Chris. “Spinsters in Sensible Shoes.” 212-223.
Booker, M. Keith. Disney, Pixar, and the Hidden Messages of Children’s Films. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2010.: “Magic Goes High-Tech: Pixar and the Children’s Film in the Age of Digital Reproduction.” 77-112.,“The Contemporary Challenge to Disney: Dreamworks and Others.” 113-170.
Craven, Allison. “Beauty and the Belles: Discourses of Feminism and Femininity in Disneyland”. In European Journal of Women's Studies, 2002, Vol. 9(2): 123–142.
Do Rozario, Rebecca-Anne C. “The Princess and the Magic Kingdom: Beyond Nostalgia, the Function of the Disney Princess.” Women’s Studies in Communication, 2004, Spring, 27 (1), 34-59.
Edwards, Leigh H. “The United Colors of “Pocahontas”: Synthetic Miscegenation and Disney’s Multiculturalism” in Narrative, Vol. 7, No. 2, Multiculturalism and Narrative (May, 1999), 147-168.
England, Dawn Elizabeth et al. “Gender Role Portrayal and the Disney Princesses.” Sex Roles (2011) 64:555–567.
Faherty, Vincent E. “Is the Mouse Sensitive? A Study of Race, Gender, and Social Vulnerability in Disney Animated Films.” Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education, Volume 1, Issue 3 (August 2001), 1–8.
Giroux, Henry A. “Public Pedagogy and Rodent Politics: Cultural Studies and the Challenge of Disney” in Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Vol. 2 (1998), 253-266.
Hurley, Dorothy L. “Seeing White: Children of Color and the Disney Fairy Tale Princess” in The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 74, No. 3 (Summer, 2005), 221-232.
Moi, Toril. “Feminist, Female, Feminine.” 104-116. In The Feminist Reader. Ed. Catherine Belsey and Jane Moore. Blackwell, Malden, 1997.
Ohmer, Susan. “‘That Rags to Riches Stuff’: Disney’s Cinderella and the Cultural Space of Animation” in Film History, Vol. 5, No. 2, Animation (Jun., 1993), 231-249.
Stone, Kay. “Things Walt Disney Never Told Us” in The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 88, No. 347, Women and Folklore (Jan. - Mar., 1975), 42-50.
Tanner, Litsa Renée et al. “Images of Couples and Families in Disney Feature-Length Animated Films.” In The American Journal of Family Therapy, 31 (2003): 355–373.
Towbin, Mia Adessa et al. “Images of Gender, Race, Age, and Sexual Orientation in Disney Feature-Length Animated Films.” Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, Vol. 15(4) 2003, 19-44.
Wohlwend, Karen E. “Damsels in Discourse: Girls Consuming and Producing Identity Texts through Disney Princess Play” in Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 2009), 57-83.
Zipes, Jack. The Enchanted Screen. The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films. New York and London: Routledge, 2011.: “Filmic Adaptation of the Fairy Tale.” 7-15.,“De-Disneyfying Disney: Notes on the Development of the Fairy-Tale Film.” 16-30., “Animated Feature Fairy-Tale Films.” 82-112., “Cracking the Magic Mirror: Representations of Snow White.” 115-133., “The Triumph of the Underdog: Cinderella’s Legacy.” 172-192., “Choosing the Right Mate: Why Beasts and Frogs Make for Ideal Husbands.” 224-251., “Andersen’s Cinematic Legacy: Trivialization and Innovation.” 252-280.