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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"little mermaid"”.
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Oceans of Literature - The Little Mermaid
<p>Mermaid stories have existed for millennia, stemming back to the ancient cultures of the world. Influenced by the mythos established in books like The Iliad, sirens and mermaids were a part of European culture for centuries. The mermaid as chimera monster that represented the duality of danger …
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Nora's Transformative Journey: From A Doll's House and The Little Mermaid to The Way Home
This critical engagement paper employs the practical work and research conducted for my MFA graduating installation performance The Way Home. For decades, domestic violence researchers analyzed abused women coping with abuse based on their psyche, which portrayed them as having certain needs that …
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Once Upon a Time in a Single-Parent Family: Father and Daughter Relationships in Disney's The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast
… films featuring a father and daughter: The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. Both films are adaptations of fairy tales, and they incorporate changes that specifically reflect concerns of the United States in the late-twentieth century. In the original narrative of "The Little Mermaid" …
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Hakuna Matata! Do Gender Roles Really Matter?: a Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of Walt Disney Cartoons
… 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 differences in the portrayal of gender roles of human and animal characters. In addition, a …
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Wrestling with Father Shakespeare: Contemporary Revisions of <em>King Lear</em> and <em>The Tempest</em>.
… renders the children fatherless. In Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Ariel initially disregards her father but ultimately accepts his rule. In Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day, the text itself becomes an orphan as the matriarchy flourishes.</p> <p>Although there appear to be few similarities between these …
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Prinsessur Bluths. Umfjöllun um staðalímynd prinsessunnar í teiknimyndum
… myndum verður notuð Litla hafmeyjan (e. The Little Mermaid) (1989) frá Disney. Þessar myndir verða svo bornar saman við hugmyndina um konuna, stöðu hennar innan samfélagsins, margbreytileika staðalímyndar hennar og þá ímynd sem þessar myndir gefa samfélaginu um konuna.
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A Cauldron of Chaos and Cultivation: Rediscovering Disney Animation of the 1980s
… to the 1990s successes beginning with <em>The Little Mermaid</em>.</p>
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The head knows what lies near the heart : an anatomy in stories and accompanying essay
… the motif of mutilation in “Cinderella”, “The Little Mermaid”, and “The Girl Without Hands”, then through the examination of metamorphosis in contemporary texts of magical realism (Marie Darrieussecq’s Truismes and Karen Russell’s St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves). Each of these …
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Pop culture’s influence on mythological monsters as seen in children and young adult’s films
… and Robert Stam. The examples chosen are: 'The Little Mermaid', 'Clash of the Titans', 'Harry Potter', and 'Narnia'. Examples are given to show how monsters have, in fact, been altered and how they have not. The first chapter gives some background information regarding children’s films and the …
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Contemporary Kitsch: An examination through creative practice
This exegesis examines the theoretical concept of contemporary kitsch within a creative practice that incorporates sculptural and installation art. Kitsch is a distinct aesthetic style. Once designated to the rubbish bin of culture, kitsch was considered to be low class, bad taste cheap fakes and …