Aladdin (1992) - IMDb. Dir. Ron Clements and John Musker. Perf. Robin Williams and Gilbert Gottfried. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Web. 15 Nov. 2010. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103639/>.
I used the Internet Movie Database to find quotes from the movie Aladdin. I was trying to convey how Jasmine felt about being married and the only way to do it seemed to be by adding a direct quotation. The quote is the same that is spoken in the movie.
"All the Lyrics of Disney Princess in Alphabetical Order." Lyrics Mania. Web. 02 Nov. 2010. <http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/disney_princess_lyrics_42181/all.html>.
I used this source to quote the individual song lyrics of each princess. It was helpful to me to be able to see the lyrics written down instead of just half memorized in my head. This cite is open to everyone and anyone can submit lyrics. As far as I know the lyrics were all correct.
Bell, Elizabeth, Lynda Haas, and Laura Sells. "Somatexts at the Disney Shop." From Mouse to Mermaid: the Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995. 107-36. Print.
This chapter of the book looks at the way that Disney’s artists portray the princesses at their “prime” age in life: at the height of puberty. They also look at the way the villains and heroes are drawn, either old and ugly or young and strong. The authors are professors/assistant professors of Writing, Communications, or Women’s studies. They look at Disney’s Princesses through a feminist perspective focusing on visual depiction of characters, gender, race, and class. This book contributed to my essay on Disney’s tendency to spotlight unattainable beauty.
Dundes, Lauren. "Disney's Modern Heroine Pocahontas: Revealing Age-old Gender Stereotypes and Role Discontinuity under a Facade of Liberation." Social Science Journal 38.3 (2001): 353-65. Academic Search Complete. Web. 4 Nov. 2010.
Dundes looks specifically at Disney’s warrior princess, Pocahontas. She dissects Pocahontas as a character and as a princess and compares and contrasts her with the other Disney Princesses. This is different than most of my other sources because it is a close dissection of one princess not just a broad summary of all of them. This was helpful in my introduction to the princesses, specifically Pocahontas, because it helped me put together a way to reveal her as a new age warrior princess.
Henke, Jill and Diane Umble. "The Disney Myth in the Video Age." Mediated Women: Representations in Popular Culture. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 1999. 321-37. Print.
Henke and Umble start by briefly analyzing Disney and continue with three in depth analyses of the main female characters in The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Pocahontas. The main points they focus on are women’s roles, power structure, how the women shape their destinies, and how the women take action for themselves. They look at how Disney’s females have become more assertive, but retained the same basic characteristics. This source relates to my previous entry because it has a focus on 3 princesses instead of an overview of them all. It compares in depth these three princesses as they came about during Disney’s transition from old to new. This was very helpful with my introduction to the princesses and with my comparison of Disney’s older princesses with the newer ones.
Photograph. Fanpop.com. FanPop, Inc., Nov. 2009. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. <http://www.fanpop.com/spots/disney-couples/images/6707977/title/princess-aurora-prince-philip-photo>.
Photograph. Triplets and Us. 2009. Web. 17 Nov. 2010. <http://www.tripletsandus.com/disney/beauty.htm>.
Photograph. Disney Princess Dresses. FlexSqueeze, 28 July 2010. Web. 17 Nov. 2010. <http://disneyprincessdresses.net/>.
I used these three websites to help add some pictures to my blog. I wanted to make it more appealing to look at. Adding pictures was important to me because I think if you have something to look at while you’re reading it makes it easier. Also it helps the reader visualize who or what I am talking about.
Towbin, Mya A., Shelley Haddock, Toni Zimmerman, Lori Lund, and Litsa Tanner. "Images of Gender, Race, Age, and Sexual Orientation in Disney Feature-Length Animated Films." Journal of Feminist Family Therapy 15.4 (2003): 19-44. Academic Search Complete. Web. 1 Nov. 2010.
This journal article examines how Disney’s uses age, race, gender, and sexual orientation in its movies through characters. It is an abstract overview that dissects specific quotes and examples found in the movies. This article also helped me by comparing old and new movies and how they repeatedly portray certain aspects in positive and negative light.
Wohlwend, Karen E. "Damsels in Discourse: Girls Consuming and Producing Identity Texts Through Disney Princess Play." Reading Research Quarterly 44.1 (2009): 57-83. Academic Search Complete. Web. 1 Nov. 2010.
This was a study conducted in a kindergarten classroom. Its focus was on young girls and how they interacted with Disney Princess dolls and how they interpreted the gender bias of their stories. This article came from an academic journal and is affiliated with Indiana University. The article helped shape my blog entry about girls identifying with the princesses. It also informed me of the extent of Disney’s Princess paraphernalia and how princess play is carried out with young children.
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 18 November 2010.
I used YouTube to watch videos of the songs I talked about in my blog. I also used it to embed videos in my blog. In my first post I inserted the videos for the songs “Some Day My Prince Will Come” from Snow White and “Just around the River Bend” from Pocahontas. I thought it was important to see what was visually going on during these songs to get the full effect of their impact on children.
Zarranz, Libe Garcia. "DISWOMEN STRIKE BACK? THE EVOLUTION OF DISNEY'S FEMMES IN THE 1990s." Atenea 27.2 (2007): 55-67. Academic Search Complete. Web. 4 Nov. 2010.
“Diswomen” is an article written about the Disney women of the 90s. The princesses at this time began to evolve from helpless to independent. This article looks at that aspect and also highlights the way that even though the princesses have evolved they still revert back to the old distinct attributes that make the Disney Princesses who they are. The article comes from a magazine out of Spain and is affiliated with the University of Zaragoza, Spain.
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