Content analysis will be used to see the portrayal of gender role in Disney princess films.The coding procedure that will used for this study is based on (England, Descartes, & Collier-Meek, 2011). In addition, comparative analysis will also be done to observe any differences that are present in the Disney princess films with respect to their color.…
The Teletubbies editorial, "Role Models: The Teletubbies?," relates to the culturalism tradition that mass or popular culture reflects the values and meanings of an active, democratic culture. This tradition is explained in depth in the article by Raymond Williams "The Analysis of Culture."…
The documentary discusses the changed culture in which kids are growing up today, and the forces influencing this change. How seriously should we take this influence? Give at least three reasons to support your position.…
With my still-unwavering fondness toward my era’s Disney Channel shows, I, in letting my curiosity wander, and have found myself putting on Disney Channel just to see what “the kids” are watching these days. Rarely am I able to keep the channel on for more than a few minutes, though, because, much to my dismay, I am always quite unimpressed. I find that today’s Disney Channel shows are much less sophisticated and far tackier than those of my childhood. The sense of humor is cliché, and the acting is poorly over-dramatic, making the shows more immature and much less…
Disney has expanded their enterprise into many different areas, one of them being television. As Disney has explored the medium of television, they have focused the shows for the audience of children. In 1955, The Mickey Mouse Club was one of the first shows that Disney had on television. In order to appeal to younger audiences, the show had “young attractive stars performing before a live audience, clowns, magicians, cartoons, guest stars, educational elements, and music written for the show” (Pendergast). Children liked to watch the show because they were watching kids that were about the same age as them, and they could relate to the actors. The children watching the show were heavily influenced by the Mickey Mouse Club because they looked up to and saw the actors as role models (Telotte). They wanted to be like the actors, so Disney profited off this generation of children by putting out merchandise related to the show. In this way, Disney started making more and more money because of these child actors. Many people argue about the effect that watching Disney’s television shows and “their positive and negative influence on kids” (Hillstrom). However, what about the effect that Disney’s television shows have on the child actors? These children spend their childhood on the sets of television shows, “being a kid is a full-time job, with scripts to memorize, and tutoring to endure” (Corliss). They are playing the characters of normal kids, without being able to experience a normal childhood themselves, it is no wonder that many child stars get into trouble when they “start growing up and moving out” (Armstrong, Markovitz) and leave Disney, because they have not been able to experience normal life growing up as a Disney actor.…
After having kids many parents are struck with the realization that they don’t come with an instruction manual or any knowledge on how to nurture them into strong, successful human beings. It is all up to the mother and father to indicate what is right and wrong for their young to be involved with while growing up. With raising a child in this day and age can be a tough duty to undertake due to… In Colin Stoke’s TED talk, “How Movies Teach Manhood” his main point is about what movies are appropriate to show to young children and how they should help shape their futures. James Poniewozik speaks about this same issue but in an original way. But, while both authors show their ??? side by sharing a common concern on how kids are very much influenced…
Disney, in particular, has become a main focal point for debates such as these because of the power that they possess when it comes to young children. While it seems as though Disney attempts to maintain…
Porfilio, who works in the Educational Studies department as the Assistant Professor and Paul Carr, who works in Educational Foundations as an Assistant Professor worked together on this article where they presented their discovery on the youth culture and mass media. They claim how in ‘‘today’s historical stage, media culture has possibly become the most dominant force defining the sense of self, driving our understanding of the ‘Other,’ and providing ‘symbols, myths and resources’’’ in creating this normal culture (Porfilio and Carr para. 2). Besides, the claim about the ‘‘other’’ is stating the part of a person’s personality which isn’t conscious to them. The ‘‘symbols, myths and resources’’ mentioned have to do the representative of the concepts and ideas. Although, such symbols used are changing constantly, the world of advertisement pitches different symbols and messages every so often because as advertisers are scaning the youth scene, new identity-forming elements are created evertime, which are turned into industrial products and disseminated worldwide to be used against the youths (Furlong and Guidikova 86). Furlong and Irena points out how ‘‘the cultural geographies of youths social space change relatively fast,’’ such as treads and youth culture fads will continue to change (110). Thus, many youth cultures are constantly being reproduced and renegotiated (Furlong and Guidkova 110).…
‘Disney restyles ‘Rapunzel’ to appeal to boys’ is an article written by Dawn.C Chmielewski and Claudia Eller, writers of Los Angeles Times. As this article is published in Los Angeles Times, its main audience would be the general public. In this article, Chmielewski and Eller (2010) argue about how Disney directors are changing the name of ‘Rapunzel’ to less gender-specific titles to draw in a bigger audience. While I feel that Chmielewski and Eller have provided a refreshing insight of how the title of a movie could have a significant impact on ticket sales, the evidence provided is unsubstantial, unreliable and self-contradictory.…
Do you know how many comic books are sold every month throughout the world? Between ten to twelve million comics magazines are sold every month. However, a million dollars are spent by comic’s fans. Comics are the most interesting and effective way of storytelling and it has started its journey since people painted narratives of animals and hunting on the walls of their cave. The purpose of this paper is to show how comics can worth literature and its reflection on education and our society. For the paper’s flexibility I am taking the Avengers movie, different articles about comics and literature which will clearly show comics and its effect on literature. From the Avengers comics we can understand how comics can influence us. There arises much controversy that comics are a waste of time and it cannot be a part of literature. In my paper I will show that comics can be part of literature in three ways like it is the most interesting and effective way of storytelling, it can be educative and it has social influences.…
Friedmeyer, W. (2003, May 19). The Disneyfication of Folklore: Adolescence and Archetypes. Retrieved September 05, 2013, from Teaching Literature: http://www.teachingliterature.org/teachingliterature/pdf/story/disneyfication_friedmeyer.pdf…
The contributors treat a range of topics at issue in contemporary cultural studies: the performance of gender, race, and class; the engendered images of science, nature, technology, family, and business. The compilation of voices in From Mouse to Mermaid creates a persuasive cultural critique of Disney's ideology.…
Overview: My thesis will be that the children’s TV show Sesame Street, despite the attempts to make children learn from a young age actually questions some opinions with the changes that it occurs. Sesame Street is an extremely popular children’s TV show in America since the 1970., and has a huge impact on children growing up. Changes have been made to certain characters that have affect of stereotyping certain people. Despite the changes that are occurring, is it for the good of people or for the bad?…
Hollywood has developed the most entertainment movies and television shows. The production of entertainment has made Hollywood number one worldwide across the globe. The entire world watches television on a daily basis, it keeps us entertained. Most television programs have a purpose in our life we watch it for our own enlightenment everybody has their own story, so why not share it on television? We can relate to some issues so we keep on watching these shows. Is Hollywood enlightening us or misleading us on these fictional Characters we watch all day long on television? The goal of Hollywood is to always entertain, but what if some people take that as misleading. Hollywood teaches us about the human nature of misleading or enlightening threw television. As a person watching television shows my whole life, I grew threw the different periods of my own personal entertainment of television. As I grew from my childhood to adult stage watching these shows, their was a development that Hollywood would teach threw these stages. When you’re young all you can think about is cartoons and Disney channel then ten years later a whole new development of adult hood kicks in, like mysteries and love stories on television. It’s hard to keep away from these television shows with misleading or enlightening characters but this also keeps us amused in life.…
Pop culture is commonly defined as: modern popular culture transmitted via mass media and aimed particularly at younger people. Generations and decades all have different pop cultures, some more influencing than others but something very unique about my generation is that pop culture seems to have taken over it. Social media is how a person in the most recent generation expresses their identity as a whole, to others, and in some ways to themselves. Pop culture can touch on issues such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, cultural imperialism and censorship therefore it works in tandem with identity. In this essay I will be exploring the effects of pop culture on identity and how the relationship between the two has morphed from older…