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Brother Bear (Blaise and Walker 2003, directors) balked at that particular jump in logic. Instead, the odd side-kick characters ...

Figure 7.2 Percent of $12.8 billion (total box office gross) by studio, for the top 100 grossing animated films, 1980–2010 Sourc ...

In cases where an actor is clearly contriving an accent, a decision was made as to what language variety was most likely intende ...

Figure 7.3 371 animated characters by language spoken The universe displayed to young children in these films is one with a clea ...

groups. Less stigmatized varieties of British English are spoken by 21.8 percent. While 91 of the total 371 characters occur in ...

Mermaid, for example, seems to take place in a Caribbean setting) (Figure 7.4). Figure 7.4 Animated film distribution by story s ...

Figure 7.5 Character distribution by story setting The breakdown of characters by their language variety (Figure 7.4) becomes in ...

Figure 7.6 Characters by sex and motivation There are 72 characters who are truly bad, in major and minor roles. They include th ...

Figure 7.7 Negative characters by variety of English Table 7.4 Characters by language traits and evaluation of motivations, N = ...

Taken in context, however, this impression cannot stand firm. In Figure 7.8, which compares positive, negative and mixed motivat ...

(Lady and the Tramp, Oliver and Company, The Lion King), nefarious Asians (Lady and Tramp, Mulan, The Aristocats), smart-mouthed ...

The ability to identify an individual’s race or ethnicity on the basis of voice alone is a phenomenon that has been referred to ...

prince, the son of African Americans, is white, a fact that did not go unnoticed by the critics and scholars who consider race a ...

[It is the] current trend in producing colorful ethnicity for the white consumer appetite that makes it possible for blackness t ...

form as well. Further examination of unambiguously positive and negative characters indicates that a full 43.4 percent of 90 cha ...

The issue of language variety and accent was made somewhat easier for Disney because all the characters – humanoid and animal – ...

Lovers and mothers Romance is a major plot device in many of Disney’s animated films. Of the 24 stories examined in the first st ...

Language variety Male Female *SAE Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) (no mate) The Beast (Beauty and the Beast) Belle (Beauty and the ...

Two of the male romantic leads speak socially marked varieties of U.S. English: in The Aristocats O’Malley (voiced by Phil Harri ...

Film producers like Disney are primarily concerned with engaging the audience and filling seats in the theater. As professional ...