My question for Film & Media

' A close study of whether representations of women in Disney films mirror the societal and cultural changes that have dominated gender and cinema over the last 70 years.'

My chosen three focus films are:

Snow white

Mulan

Cinderella

I have chosen these films to compare and contrast the different representations of women over the 70 year period (Snow white being the earliest in 1938 to Mulan 1998) to see if the representations that Disney has of women have moved on in these films as much as it has in society.

I am interested to find out what people consider to be a 'Princess' and why these representations have stuck throughout the years and are now being taught to younger children.

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Sunday, 2 November 2008

Research tool

for my primary research i have chosen to produce a focus group. so far i have only done one but plan on doing 3 (children /teenagers/adults) so far i have done a small sample of teenagers aged between 17-18. i used  mixture of girls and boys in order to make it fair and altogether i used 12 people. my focus group questions were:

 Draw your own interpretation of a Disney woman.

·            From the sheet in front of you circle your favourite Disney character and write next to it why.

·           Next to the picture of Mulan, Cinderella and Snow white describe them in 5 words.

·           Show 2 clips (you tube) Do the representations of women you see in these clips mirror changes in gender over the years? Discuss.

·           If you were creating your own Disney film draw how your female main character would look.                    

      From the 2 pictures i had asked everyone to draw i made a spreadsheet in order to collect all the information that i had received from this i was then able to create a graph which allowed my findings to be easily read and compared. 

 



 

 

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2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey Aimee
I was on youtube doing research on Disney for art (Dont ask ¬¬ )
And i found this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CWMCt35oFY
I know you're looking at women in disney films but i thought it could be some use :)
Sii x

6 November 2008 at 21:00
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