Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Enchanted (Film), Disney Princess, Golden Globe Award

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

Document Summary

Enchanted: nominated for two golden globes and 3 oscars, won best family film critics choice awards. Ws lecture 8 problematizing the disney princess: promoted as (cid:498)celebratory self-parody(cid:499) of fairy tale films. . 1 million opening weekend: robert teaches his daughter that there are alternative ways of being a girl, buys his daughter a book about inspirational women rather than a fairytale book. Giselle: innocent and sexualized: family structures change, comes out of the shower, what trope does it reinforce, goes through physical transformation cleavage (sexualized) She says the lips are the only things that touch: marriages don(cid:495)t always work out. Surface-level representation of the (cid:498)career-driven modern(cid:499) women: deleted scene: (cid:498))t(cid:495)s not like im one of those women, you know, who sit around their entire. I got over that fantasy a long time ago(cid:499) (cid:498)trivializing feminist ideology or compressing the actions of female characters into the instilled by patriarchal teachings and values(cid:499)