Good Girls and Wicked Witches: Changing Representations of Women in Disney's Feature Animation

by Amy M. Davis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861966732
• ISBN13: 9780861966738
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: John Libbey & Company
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher