Disney 's Employment Of Various Master Narratives And Its Way Of Representing Crimes And Criminals

Unlike most people today, I rarely watch TV and do not follow any shows; therefore, I decided to evaluate my favorite film franchise, Disney. The Disney Corporation began creating movies in a rather non-inclusive time, the early 1900’s; thus, several of their movies depict racial and gender stereotypes. The problem does not revolve around the actual making of the movies but that Disney still holds on to several of these iconic movies. For example, Dumbo and Peter Pan are two movies still admired today with racial stereotypes.

I will use box office sales and other prominent statistics associated with the Disney company to help demonstrate the influence Disney has on the public. Pedagogy scholars Kevin M. Tavin and David Anderson’s journal article, “Teaching (Popular) Visual Culture: Deconstructing Disney in the Elementary Art Classroom” informs readers of the power of the Disney company in all medias to create “individual and collective identities” (23). In journal article, “Tackling Māori Masculinity: A Colonial Genealogy of Savagery and Sport”, Māori scholar Brendan Hokowhitu will build off this source by not only referencing cultural stereotypes formed by others, due to the media, but also identities formed about one’s own native culture and heritage. He uses a direct example of Māori men stereotypes. I plan to synthesize many of my sources like this: with one showing a various perspective (i.e. pedagogical or colonial) on the Disney company and another highlighting the point of view from a Polynesian.

Released in 1967, “Cool Hand Luke” continues to be one of the most popular movies in American history. (Belton, 2008) The movie starred famed actor Paul Newman and was based on the trials and tribulations occurring inside a Florida prison camp. One of the main reasons why Cool Hand Luke continues to be relevant today is due to its incisive observations regarding the criminal justice system. While the movie was released over forty years ago, the relevance of Cool Hand Luke continues today. This paper will provide a synopsis of the movie and character analysis of Cool Hand Luke; in addition, the paper will analyze the movie from the perspectives of someone unfamiliar with the criminal justice system as well as a professional in the

For most of society, the word Disney elicits warm feelings: memories of early Saturday mornings with family watching cartoons, family trips to Disney World, or a movie that was so encapsulating it was watched over and over again. Disney achieves a high level of regard from most of society unparalleled by other companies. Penn State education professor, Henry A. Giroux, accompanied by Grace Pollock, argues in his book The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence that society is blinded by Disney’s façade of “childhood innocence” and that Disney’s marketing tactics are far from innocent at all.

Disney films use their characters as a vehicle to portray specific ideologies of race and sexuality to the viewer (168). For example, The Road to Eldorado depicts a fictionalized account of the Spanish Conquest. Using relatable characters, the film highly racializes both Spaniards and Indigenous American’s (169). The authors are able to explain this racialization by describing the Indigenous people as being in need of rescue and the Spaniards as the “bad or wrong” Europeans, who are incapable of rescuing

The values being represented in this media text can be influential in a negative way. Media texts play a major role in producing and reproducing ideologies (Dines & Humez, pp. 1). Ideologies are how we make sense of the world and put it into context. Although Disney is known for the illustration and projection of positive possessive values and messages through their imagery and symbolism, they are also responsible for the negative illustrations in their imagery in terms of misrepresentation of cultures and races, the generalization and encouragement of racial factors in their

The Disney Corporation has had both positive and negative effects on American society. Disney has majorly affected both the youth and adults in America by way they interact with each other, what they expect from each other, and how parents bring up their youth in harsh and unrealistic expectations according to Disney. Disney has fostered a strong sense of imagination in the past, present and future youth of America. This sense of imagination is necessary to the development of children when it comes to success in life and self-confidence. The Disney Corporation knows how to work it’s audience for a profit and mastering that skill has allowed Disney to accumulated billions by advertising and selling fantasies to young children and their parents. It’s also these very ideas that influence what Americans believe our government and policies should be founded on. In “The Mouse That Roared” the author states “Education is never innocent, because it always presupposes a particular view of citizenship, culture, and society. And yet it is this very appeal to innocence, bleached of any semblance of politics, that has become a defining feature in Disney culture and pedagogy” (Giroux 31) This quote defines Disney at large. Disney has created the idea of ‘imagination’ in American society and perpetuates it in everything America does and influences everything America stands. In everyday American life, politics and business, The Disney Corporation has a hand in it.

Walt Disney’s animated classics are prominent and affluential for the millennial generation and are loved by many people all over the world, preferably by the western socialized population. Because of its dominance, Disney’s subliminal impacts on children and even adults are presented as an enormous socialization factor throughout Hollywood. Disney’s portrayal of race and culture is predominant throughout its characters, settings and music, specifically in the last 2 ½ decades. The following analysis investigates Disney’s utilization of race and culture, throughout its films and correlates with its awareness in social responsibility. A paramount example would be Disney’s, A Bug’s Life, presenting many key components of race and culture and how the lives of the main characters are impacted as a whole.

Gangster films have revolutionized cinematic filmography since the 1930s. In the article, it was mentioned that gangster films have a mixture of theory and history (Butters, 2005). As a result, several scholars looked at a variety of different essays dealing with criminality. They wanted to look how criminality within these films has transformed over time. They did this by focusing on the topics of gender, race, and sexuality. This was considered to be a unique approach since essays past focused on individualism.

Title: The Mouse that Roared; Disney and the end of Innocence Author: Henry A. Giroux Length: 170 pages Precis: Henry A. Giroux argues that Disney is “anything but innocent”, that the true aim Disney is setting is educating children to become active consumers. Describe the realities of Disney films, the racism, gender roles and stereotypes. I. Ten Facts I’ve learned reading this book 1. Innocence is a key factor in the Disney Company’s attempt to market its self-image to the American public. Pg.34 2.

Symbols and representation mean different things to different people. Often, it defines someone as who they are and what they believe in based on specific symbols or representations that a person chooses for themselves. Some good examples of the importance of symbols and representation to people can be found in the works of “In the Depths of Solitude” and “Mark My Words. Maybe.” by Tupac Shakur and Leslie Jamison respectively. In “Mark My Words. Maybe.” Leslie Jamison tells the tale of a man who had just gotten a tattoo. In this story, the tattoo that the man got was a symbol representing the values of the man. The tattoo was a Latin phrase about understanding humanity reading, “I am human: nothing human is alien to me.” Throughout the

Resident Evil 5, which is known as Biohazard 5 in Japan, is a survival horror video game developed and published by a digital company named Capcom (Snow, 2008: 1). The game was released on the 5th of March in 2009. The plot of Resident Evil revolves around characters named Chris Redfield- the white middle aged male protagonist- and Sheva Alomar- the middle aged female character that serves to support Chris (Snow, 2008: 1). It also revolves around their investigation of a terrorist threat in Kijuju, which is a fictional region in Africa (Snow, 2008: 1).

In essence, this paper will outline two significant themes related to crime and the effect of media explored in the film. Most notably, the nature of crime and criminality is explored thoroughly. Specifically, the effect limited opportunities and racial stereotyping can have on promoting an individual down a path of crime. Particular attention will be given to a scene in which a youthful fox wishes to join a prey-dominant Boy Scout troop, only to be rejected and humiliated because he is a predator. Furthermore, the concept of a moral panic caused by media news reporting is displayed excellently in a montage scene in which prey are scared of predators as the media reports that aggression and criminality is in their nature. Finally, I will critique how these issues are communicated in a neo-noir

For comic book enthusiasts during the 1950’s, Frederic Wertham was more threatening to the reader than any fictitious villain that they had read of before. This is because Dr. Frederic Wertham dedicated his career to attacking the negative impact comic books had on its readers. Additionally, he discussed the atrocious social implications they produced in American culture. Wertham took a similar viewpoint to Sigmund Freud in that he believed, one’s morals are strongly influenced by the society in which a person lives. With this view, Wertham sought to answer the question; why is juvenile delinquency rapidly growing in the United States? In order to answer this, Wertham decided to blame comic books for being the primary cause of the rise in juvenile delinquency in the United States (Wertham 100). Wertham’s attack on comics is as Savage believes, “ most assuredly a pompous, polemical, biased, and poorly documented one (Savage 96). In analyzing various comics, William Savage’s book Commies, Cowboys, and Jungle Queens, and an excerpt from Frederic Wertham’s book Seduction of the Innocent, I hold the belief that, although Wertham was melodramatic in his attack on comic books, he still held a valid argument for the negative role comics played in the United States.

Representation is an essential part of the process by which meaning is produced and exchanged between members of a culture. It does involve the use of language, of signs and images which stand for or represent things. And surly it is not a simple or straightforward process.