2. What do we mean by 'Auteur'?
โIs the director technically competent?
โDo the films show a signature style?
โDo the films project a consistent world
view?
3. Disney
Remember, it's not
just the name of the
company โ Walt
Disney was the head
of the studio until his
death in the late
1960s.
4. Technically Competent?
Did things nobody had
managed before โ Snow
White put together over
140,000 individual drawings
to tell its story. Even then,
working from observation
the animators studied the
way a dress would move as
she danced, how leaves
flew in the wind, how
shadows changed on
different surfaces...
5. Stylistic Characteristics
โ Fairy tales
โ Anthropomorphic sidekicks
โ Teenagers (especially
teenage girls) growing into
adulthood and breaking
away from their parents
โ Realistic animation rather
than squash and stretch
cartooning
โ Songs โ Disney films are
musicals
6. Messages and Values
โ A clear good -v- evil view
of the world
โ Standing up for what you
believe in
โ Rewarding 'good'
behaviour (eventually)
โ Children's/Young People's
lives are important
โ Good hearted, honest
innocent loyalty will wiin
over scheming evil
7. Possible Disney Projects?
Look at the changing
representation of
women in Disney
films
โ Snow White
โ The Little Mermaid
โ Mulan
8. What Would You Do?
โ Choose a focus film.
โ Watch, watch and watch again,
noting ideas about
representations of gender
โ Watch the other films and
make notes
โ Research Disney and Gender
โ research the specific films โ
research gender and fairy tales
โ research the 'root' stories
(fairy tales, myths and
legends)
9. And then what would you do?
โ Record your findings
โ Evaluate your
findings
โ See where your
findings lead you
next
โ Go back to your
notes, and the films,
and think again
10. What else might you look for?
โ Marketing material
โ Audio material โ podcasts โ
discussions โ press
conferences
โ AV material โ as for audio.
โ User generated AV
โ Financial information โ how
much did they cost and how
well did they do
โ Awards
11. What will you do with this stuff?
โ You will use what
you've learned to
write a presentation
script
โ You will refer to your
research in the
presentation
โ We will worry about
exactly how to write
this in the autumn.
