Disney film
To start, select a Disney film (or television show) not assigned in this class.Except(Mickey Mouse Monopoly, Snow White,Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty,The little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast,Phcahontas and Moana,Frozen2,The Lion King, Princess and Forg, Coco, Aladdin and Mulan,Finding Nemo,Raya, The Last Dragon) While potential films are not confined to Disney’s animated films, your selected film or show must be produced under Disney.
For example, The Mandalorian is Disney-produced and would therefore be an appropriate focus for this assignment, while Star Wars films created before Disney purchased Lucasfilms would not.
Watch (or re-watch) your selected Disney film or television show through intersectional and other feminist frameworks. While there is no required submission for this element of your project, the following guiding questions may be useful in engaging your selected media and/or structuring your eventual analysis.
Informed by intersectional and other feminist frameworks, how are gender, race, sexuality, class, disability, and other intersecting social categories depicted within your selected media?
How are masculinity and/or femininity articulated within your selected media?
What flows of power and/or resistance are evident in your selected media?
What implicit and/or explicit narratives are told within your selected media?
When was this media produced? How does it reflect or relate to this moment or other broader social contexts?
How does your selected media affirm and/or trouble systems of oppression and their norms?
How does your selected media deepen, shift, or expand your understanding of interlocking systems of oppression including white supremacy, patriarchy, and ableism?
What creative modes of resistance and/or survival are enacted by characters marginalized within your selected media?
How was this media received by critics and/or the public when it was initially released? Have these attitudes shifted since its initial release? What are the possible implications or meanings of these attitudes?
Following this review of your selected media, you will synthesize your findings via a feminist media analysis essay (500-750 words). This project should reflect college-level writing practices and conventions, including proper citational (MLA (Links to an external site.)) practices.
You are encouraged to make use of OSU’s Online Writing Support (OWS)Links to an external site. resources ahead of your submission in Week Four
