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Advice for Young Girls From a Cartoon Princess: Snow White
Showing posts with label Disney Princess. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Disney Princess. Show all posts
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Advice for Young Girls
Presented, without comment, for your enjoyment.
PS - I am not responsible if you spit your drink all over your keyboard from laughing while watching these videos, so do us all a favor and put your drink down now. Thanks.
Advice for Young Girls From a Cartoon Princess: Snow White
PS - I am not responsible if you spit your drink all over your keyboard from laughing while watching these videos, so do us all a favor and put your drink down now. Thanks.
Advice for Young Girls From a Cartoon Princess: Snow White
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Re-Imagination and Disney Princesses
[This post is dedicated to my sister Erin, the most Disney Princess girl I’ve ever known. She’s all about Belle.]
Dr. Logan structured our course so that each of the ten students presents a text to the rest of the class in a 30-45 minute presentation; we are also responsible for the creation of a handout to guide and focus our discussion of the selected text. Last night’s class was on The Female American, attributed to Unca Eliza Winkfield. Spencer was our presenter, and on the handout, he included an art deco image of Pocahontas. In The Female American, Unca Eliza’s Native American mother is a Pocahontas figure, saving her future husband from death at the hands of her tribe, of which her father is king. Unca Eliza, a bi-racial character, frequently references her skill with a bow and arrow, which makes the selected image particularly suitable.
Part of our assignment included browsing through the images in Edward J. Gallagher’s Pocahontas Images gallery to acquaint ourselves with the ways in which the persona and image of Pocahontas has been appropriated by cultures throughout time. There is an astounding amount of images available on the site, and apparently, Pocahontas can, with the stroke of an artist’s paintbrush or pen, transform from a Native American woman into a hybrid into a white woman.
So, during our class discussion (or was it last week’s discussion? Oh old age, you are wrecking havoc on my memory), the subject of the Disney princesses came up, and Dr. Logan asked us, “Do any of them end their story not married?” As we sat there thinking, we realized – no, all of the princesses, except Pocahontas, end up married. However, even Pocahontas cannot escape the fate of a Disney tale, and ends up married in the sequel, Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (thanks to Jen for saving the day with this trivia tidbit).
Dr. Logan structured our course so that each of the ten students presents a text to the rest of the class in a 30-45 minute presentation; we are also responsible for the creation of a handout to guide and focus our discussion of the selected text. Last night’s class was on The Female American, attributed to Unca Eliza Winkfield. Spencer was our presenter, and on the handout, he included an art deco image of Pocahontas. In The Female American, Unca Eliza’s Native American mother is a Pocahontas figure, saving her future husband from death at the hands of her tribe, of which her father is king. Unca Eliza, a bi-racial character, frequently references her skill with a bow and arrow, which makes the selected image particularly suitable.
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Part of our assignment included browsing through the images in Edward J. Gallagher’s Pocahontas Images gallery to acquaint ourselves with the ways in which the persona and image of Pocahontas has been appropriated by cultures throughout time. There is an astounding amount of images available on the site, and apparently, Pocahontas can, with the stroke of an artist’s paintbrush or pen, transform from a Native American woman into a hybrid into a white woman.
So, during our class discussion (or was it last week’s discussion? Oh old age, you are wrecking havoc on my memory), the subject of the Disney princesses came up, and Dr. Logan asked us, “Do any of them end their story not married?” As we sat there thinking, we realized – no, all of the princesses, except Pocahontas, end up married. However, even Pocahontas cannot escape the fate of a Disney tale, and ends up married in the sequel, Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (thanks to Jen for saving the day with this trivia tidbit).
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