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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Walt Disney"”.
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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
This 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 …
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Pocahontas reclaimed: the Powhatans' theatrical rebuttal to Disney's revisionist myth
… play <em>The One Called Pocahontas</em> to the Walt Disney film <em>Pocahontas</em>. The author examined the accepted history of the Powhatan woman known as Pocahontas in relation to the "infotainment" provided by both the play and the movie. The study examines the objections to the Walt Disney …
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'A Place Called Slaughter Race': Spectres of conflict in contemporary Disney animation
… subjugation 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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Population Churn: The Migration Flow Of Florida
… twenty-seven thousand acres of swampland into Walt Disney World. Since then, Orlando's evolution is divided into two eras: before and after Walt Disney World. Orlando has changed from a quiet town whose function was to service the surrounding citrus growing regions in a sparsely populated …
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Trends in Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Children's Fairy Tales
… fairy tale canon. I will primarily analyze The Walt Disney Company’s recent films, Brave, Frozen, The Princess and the Frog and Tangled as well as Emma Donoghue’s short fiction collection, Kissing the Witch and several tales from the feminist anthology Don’t Bet on the Prince, compiled by Jack …
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Um mundo ideal? Imperialismo e hipersexualização feminina em Aladdin (1992)
A animação Aladdin (1992) da Walt Disney Animation Studios é um dos filmes mais bem sucedidos do estúdio, com sua trama que traz às telas o Oriente Médio e a primeira personagem princesa não caucasiana dos estúdios. Entretanto, o longa-metragem, que propõe-se a representar um país árabe, é repleto …
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Colorimetric sensor arrays: development and application to art conservation
… with the Getty Conservation Institute and the Walt Disney Animation Research Library, to make trial experiments in the monitoring of artwork from the Walt Disney Animation Research Library exhibition in Beijing, ""Drawn from Life: the Art of Disney Animation Studios"", in order to monitor …
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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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O marketing dos eventos de Star Wars e o relacionamento com os fãs
… o relacionamento dos fãs com as empresas The Walt Disney Company, Lucasfilm Ltd. e Editora Aleph. Os representantes dos fã-clubes Conselho Jedi Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo e Minas Gerais, também contribuíram para o estudo, auxiliando com relatos sobre o ponto de vista do fã acerca desse …
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Journey to Machu Picchu: Where History, Culture, and Imagination Intertwine
… the design of a new country pavilion at Epcot in Walt Disney World based on Peru. This project revealed that in architecture, the design process is integral to the outcome; they are interwoven and cannot be separated. Weaving has emerged throughout every level of this investigation, from the …
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Disaffection and Othering: Beyond Our Coordinates
… “Othered” during wartime. Essays “A Review of Walt Disney’s Life and ‘Othering’” and “Walt Disney’s ‘Reluctant Dragon’ and the 1941 Strike,” study how and why Walt Disney “Othered” certain audiences in his films <em>The Reluctant Dragon</em>, <em>Saludos Amigos</em>, and <em>The Three …
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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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Piano and popular culture: how Snow White and Charlie Brown made it to the concert hall
… White, and Greg Anderson’s arrangement of Three Waltzes for Two Pianos, which draw inspiration from the Walt Disney Productions adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The objective will be to determine whether or not these pieces draw upon the scores that are culturally attached to these …
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La comunicación de los sentimientos a través del lenguaje audiovisual
… sobre el análisis de contenido de los videos de Walt Disney y la alianza Disney -Pixar, una investigación experimental sobre la memoria a corto plazo con imagen fija y en movimiento y una longitudinal (durante tres años) sobre la memoria a largo plazo respecto a la imagen audiovisual en entornos …
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Children of the Mexican Miracle: Childhood and Modernity in Mexico City, 1940--1968
… designed specifically for children, like Walt Disney films and Cri-Cri radio broadcasts, educated children and, in the process, expanded the definition of childhood to include more sectors of society. Finally, print media provided a forum to discuss the rights and needs of children in …
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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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Beyond the Aesthetic Machine: Disney's Multiplane Camera and the Role of Special Effects Technologies in the Animation Industry
The Walt Disney Company, throughout its history, has foregrounded a commitment to technological innovation as a tool for creating stories and entertaining audiences. One of Disney's most celebrated exemplars of this commitment is the multiplane camera, a special effects device first introduced in …
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Leadership: Personal Narratives of Practitioners
… research population included participants from Walt Disney Institute; Intel Corporation; and San Diego State University; the El Cajon Police Department and Woodbridge High School, Irvine, California. The data demonstrate a general identification by the participants of leadership with management. …
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Identifying an Optimal Dining Plan System for the Entertainment Industry
<p>The Disney Dining Plan (DDP) is a pre-paid meal plan guests can purchase when they make their reservation at Walt Disney World (WDW). Under the current system, the information provided to guests explaining the program is unclear which leads to confusion for guests. For example, guests are not …
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