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Teaching Children how to Discriminate 7 (What we learn from the Big Bad Wolf)^1 We are faced first-off with indexical facts, fac ...

As such, its first and primary concern is its shareholders, and shareholders are primarily interested in profit, something a for ...

The purpose here is not to condemn Disney or any other producer of animated film;^2 but neither is it reasonable to simply overl ...

African Americans, Africans, Asians, Middle Easterners, Eskimos, Italians, Latinos, Jews, the English, Irish, Scots, Russians an ...

Mulan (Dong 2010). Disney’s versions are often the first and sometimes the only versions children see and hear. And because the ...

well understood, but it is clear that children use similarity in this process. Furry creatures with four legs – dogs, goats, hor ...

for satirical effect, but more usually stereotypes indicate lack of imagination, laziness, bias, or some combination of the thre ...

be examined more closely. It serves as an excellent example of the general inclination to isolate Disney from critical commentar ...

Figure 7.1 The Eternal Jew Source: Poster: Exhibition Der ewige Jude. Reprinted from Getty Images ...

The similarities between the Disney version of the Big Bad Wolf as Jewish peddler and the Nazi propaganda are more than simply s ...

reanimated to remove the offensive stereotyped image, the wolf continued to speak with a Yiddish accent. Thus the underlying mes ...

theater in the United States) is irrelevant to the characterization and can be left alone. Some actors are infamous for never tr ...

mechanics and technicalities of one particular regional or foreign accent, but also issues of content and approach. Dialect acto ...

on the accent of the language they would logically be speaking in the time and setting of the story. If a French accent is meant ...

established a personality and reputation with the movie-going public were drawn, quite literally, into the animation and story-t ...

pressing concern is how to engage the interest of the viewers by making the setting familiar and comfortable. Table 7.2 Disney’s ...

comedic plot. Silverman, an archeologist, estimates that as it is presented the film contains elements that span 3,000 years and ...

As non-photographic application of photographic medium, [animators] are freed from the basic cinematic expectation that they con ...

Table 7.3 Disney animated films included in the 1997 and 2010 studies Even a cursory look is enough to get a sense of the range ...

release of any full-length animated film, Disney begins to release marketing tie-ins, which include “toys, apparel, accessories, ...