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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"Disney"”.
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A Disney hercegnők evolúciója és a szerelem propaganda
Szakdolgozatom a Disney-hercegnők karakterfejlődését vizsgálja a stúdió kezdeteitől napjainkig, különös tekintettel a romantikus szerelem mint társadalmi propaganda nőkre gyakorolt szerepére. A kutatás elméleti keretét Vlagyimir Propp morfológiája és Algirdas Julien Greimas aktáns-modellje alkotja, …
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The User Experience of Disney Infinity: Do Smart Toys Matter?
… involved with the commercial video game Disney Infinity (2.0 Edition), and sought to determine if the unique combination between sandbox and smart toy based gameplay present in gameplay offers an additional level of immersion. This study analyzed the effect of Disney Infinity (2.0 …
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The portrayal of gender over time in Disney animated films
… the portrayal of gender roles and stereotypes in Disney animated films over the course of The Walt Disney Company's history. By conducting a quantitative content analysis of the nine highest grossing animated films each from a different decade of Disney's existence, data were obtained on the …
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Whoever Said Change Was Good: The Transforming Body of the Disney Villainess
This dissertation examines female figures in Disney animation through the lens of Laban Movement Analysis (LMA), a system for observing and articulating movement qualities. Drawing from six major films released between 1937 and 2010, I focus my inquiry on how the bodies and movement of Disneys …
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A Cauldron of Chaos and Cultivation: Rediscovering Disney Animation of the 1980s
<p>This thesis examines the four transitional Disney animated features of the 1980s <em>The Fox and the Hound</em> (1981), <em>The Black Cauldron</em> (1985), <em>The Great Mouse Detective</em> (1986), and <em>Oliver and Company</em> (1988)— in order to reassess the significance of this period in …
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'A Place Called Slaughter Race': Spectres of conflict in contemporary Disney animation
… as forms of conflict informing the Walt Disney Animation Studios features Big Hero 6 (Don Hall and Chris Williams, 2014), Zootopia (Byron Howard and Rich Moore, 2016), Moana (Ron Clements and John Musker, 2016) and Ralph Breaks the Internet (Rich Moore and Phil Johnston, 2018). By …
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STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES FOR THE TRAFFIC INVENTORY DEPARTMENT OF THE DISNEY ABC TELEVISION GROUP
… was told by my boss in my early days working for Disney ABC Television Group. This principle is quite simple: if the one person who knows how to do the job walks out the door and is hit by a Mack truck, we have a problem; no one else knows how to do what that person did. And when it comes to …
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A Disney Romance for the Ages: Idealistic Beliefs of Romantic Relationships Held By Youth
The Disney Princess Brand includes 11 Disney Princess films from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Brave (2012). The goal of this campaign is for audiences to be entertained by the narratives while encouraging identification with the princesses in the films (Do Rozario, 2004; Orenstein, …
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The Edutainer: Walt Disney, Nature Films, and American Understandings of Nature in the Twentieth Century
Throughout much of the twentieth century Walt Disney wielded considerable influence in American culture. By identifying and commercially exploiting a strain of environmental thought that sentimentalized and romanticized nature, Walt Disney influenced the attitudes of millions of Americans …
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Hakuna Matata! Do Gender Roles Really Matter?: a Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of Walt Disney Cartoons
… thesis examines the gender roles present in Walt Disney cartoons using a feminist rhetorical perspective. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi, The Little Mermaid and The Lion King are analyzed to determine the relative amount of power that women have vis-a-vis men. The thesis also examines the …
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Bienvenida a Disney princess Elena: Exploring race, age, and gender in Disney’s Elena of Avalor
… and Girls’ Studies, this dissertation explores Disney’s contemporary construction of Latinidad by focusing on Elena of Avalor, Disney’s first Latina princess. Situated against the backdrop of contemporary postfeminist and neoliberal discourses of girls, this dissertation examines Disney’s …
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Disney meets Darwin : an evolution-based interface for exploration and design of expressive animated behavior
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1994.
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Animated Films and Linguistic Stereotypes: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Accent Use in Disney Animated Films
… ideologies. This study aims to find out if Disney animated films released in 2016 use accents to express the nature of the characters. A discourse analysis is conducted with two animated films produced by Disney Studios to examine the language choices concerning accent use. Results show that …
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Race and the Renaissance: The legacy of diversity in Disney fairy-tale and folkloresque film adaptations
This dissertation deconstructs Disney’s corporate commodification of multiculturalism and diversity to examine the impacts versus the stated intentions of a US-centric corporation with conservative roots to become more diverse and multicultural in its depiction of race and ethnicity in a more …
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Claiming a Place in the Magic Kingdom: A Queer Analysis of Disney Movies from 2010 to 2020
Disney movies are a vehicle for American culture; however, Disney has lagged behind in representing queer people in their films as protagonists. For this reason, critical scholarship is necessary to understand Disney's role in building, replicating or changing culture. Although some critical work …
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Being non-binary on Japanese Disney Channel: An analysis of the gendered language used in The Owl House
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Beautiful Things in the World: A Semiotic Analysis on Disney and Japanese 2D Feature-Length Animation through Creative Practice
Disney and Japanese feature-length animations, which have led the world's animation markets for a long time, show their own unique, inherent characteristics in the representation of animated images. As such, the analysis on the characteristics of the signification system of Disney and Japanese …
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A Wish Stays With You
… devoted to wishes and the corporate media giant Disney that spins tales of realized dreams. The work weaves together explorations of memory, fairy tales, art, architecture, corporate philanthropy, commerce, advertising, performance, death, illness, disability, and toxic positivity. My thesis …
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