‘In The Bloody Chamber, childhood fairytales become the stuff of adult nightmares.’ With close reference to at least two stories from the collection, say how far you agree with this comment. Angela Carter’s decision to subvert the classic fairytale genre with twisted parodies of the original was shocking to readers at the time, and her stories certainly reveal more sinister and perverse depths of these fairytales – depths which the original authors surely did not intend on existing with their target audience of children in mind. Fairy tales are typically very non- realistic with phrases such as ‘Once upon a time’ - immediately implying a fantasy era and setting, being their famous opening lines. As with fairytales, nightmares are of course always fiction. They can be seen to be the predictor of future events and to say something about your life.
He states that it is actually ironic that parents let children watch these G-rated movies when they are “minefields of terror,” as he quotes. Why is it that children are allowed to watch these movies, yet not allowed a horror movie? Perhaps it is because of the animation and some of the historical prestige of Disney after all. I am not one to judge Disney movies, in my opinion I enjoy some of them, but honestly there is a fine line of subliminal messaging involved. I believe king did not mention this to state he is against Disney movies, I think it was just to defend his idea that most horror themes and Disney movies are alike in many ways.
5/25/2011 Enc1102 “ Bonfire of the Princesses Analysis” Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of the article “Bonfire of the Princesses.” In her article, the author points out how Disney has been over marketing their princesses to girls, and how Disney’s princesses are bad role models for children. She points out that everything on Disney’s product line is there to draw your child in to the princesses. While stating these points in her article she is trying to convince readers that Disney and its marketing is bad. Ehrenreich is effective with her appeal by getting the readers emotion and making them want to side against Disney; and also by getting the reader to think about if Disney should have as much credibility as it does with people. The
“Whilst other animators were known for anarchistic and inventive styles, Disney played it safe and followed the traditional narrative style.” Critically discuss this statement by Janet Wasko with reference to three Disney films. Disney feature length films are known worldwide for their representation of a unique and identifiable style. Under the influence of Walt Disney the characteristics within the feature length films are obvious and stereotypical. The films feature a light entertainment style with predictable storylines and formulaic characters as Disney represents specific values and ideologies to its audience. Other animators such as Warner Brothers focused on often extremist versions of the real world; whilst Disney’s plausible impossibility represented the real and identifiable.
What is “The Smurfette Principle?” Pollitt explains it as, “a group of male buddies will be accented by a lone female, stereotypically defined” (545). In “The Smurfette Principle,” Pollitt argues that media directed towards children hurts them by stereotyping girls as inferior characters, which she ties together with strong, effective logos and pathos to support and give her ethos credibility. The logos are strong supports to the ethos by giving several familiar examples in children’s movies, shows, and books where the female has an inferior role to the male’s role. Pollitt describes more on “The Smurfette Principle” by saying: In the worst cartoons—the ones that blend seamlessly into the animated cereal commercials—the female is usually a little-sister type, a bunny in a pink dress and hair ribbons who tags along with the adventurous bears and badgers. But the Smurfette principle rules the more carefully made shows too (545).
I think they distorted the story because they added punishment to the bad characters. I believe they thought they were improving them and maybe adding some moral tones to the story. After reading the stories I found a lot of violence then other versions I have read or watched. I believe the telling of Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Beauty and the best by Disney is an improvement from Grimms. Disney added more of a magical feel to the story and took out of some the violence.
This pursuit of knowledge and progress is not unlike that of the Nazi regime. Composed post WWII, the film also holds totalitarian overtones represented through Tyrell’s creation of a creature “more human than human” and Chew’s blindness to the ethical ramifications and moral obligations of his work (“I only do eyes”) in creating the eyes of the new human race (i.e. the future). Furthermore, Scott hints at the regressive nature of science through the interwoven elements of film noir and science fiction. The film also shows façades of twinkling, awe-inspiring lights with corrupt, dirty
These ideals created by the media might not be necessarily appropriate. Alcohol manufacturers use a variety of unscrupulous techniques to advertise alcoholic beverages to children. Perhaps the worst example is Anheuser-Busch Co., the world's largest brewer, which uses child-enticing cartoon images of frogs, dogs, penguins and lizards in ads for Budweiser beer. These Budweiser cartoon characters are hugely popular with children, just like Joe Camel ads. A KidCom Marketing study once found these Budweiser cartoon character ads were American children's favorite ads.
Using his great but imperfect magic, he transforms Hal, the nerdy redheaded cameraman for the local television station. However, Hal quickly discovers that do revenge against a world that looked down on him is much more fun than doing good. Megamind is a master of disguises who in his funniest image becomes a parody of Marlon Brando in “Superman.” By the time Megamind is proclaiming, “You know I’m big, I’m bad,” Megamind’ heroism, and Roxanne’s love appear as existent
There are also those who are strongly against Disney and try and point out Disney’s faults as they attempt to find horrible messages hidden in Disney films. Critics of Disney claim there are themes of racism, sexism, and domestic violence cleverly woven into classic Disney movies. These anti-Disney protestors believe that Disney used these messages in its movies in order to spread very negative ideas about non-American culture and also to shape the identities of children. Through analysis of counter arguments and primary sources such as the films “Tarzan”, “Beauty and the Beast”, and “Mulan”, it is clear that Walt Disney and the Disney Corporation do not actually use its harmless, and at times even positive, family movies to shape the children of the world into a horrible, racist, stereotyping, and self-objectifying population. Anti-Disney advocates stress the fact that Disney movies appear to show and promote racism.