2. What do we mean by 'Auteur'?
●Is the director technically competent?
●Do the films show a signature style?
●Do the films project a consistent world
view?
3. Disney
Remember, it's not
just the name of the
company – Walt
Disney was the head
of the studio until his
death in the late
1960s.
4. Technically Competent?
Did things nobody had
managed before – Snow
White put together over
140,000 individual drawings
to tell its story. Even then,
working from observation
the animators studied the
way a dress would move as
she danced, how leaves
flew in the wind, how
shadows changed on
different surfaces...
5. Stylistic Characteristics
● Fairy tales
● Anthropomorphic sidekicks
● Teenagers (especially
teenage girls) growing into
adulthood and breaking
away from their parents
● Realistic animation rather
than squash and stretch
cartooning
● Songs – Disney films are
musicals
6. Messages and Values
● A clear good -v- evil view
of the world
● Standing up for what you
believe in
● Rewarding 'good'
behaviour (eventually)
● Children's/Young People's
lives are important
● Good hearted, honest
innocent loyalty will wiin
over scheming evil
7. Possible Disney Projects?
Look at the changing
representation of
women in Disney
films
● Snow White
● The Little Mermaid
● Mulan
8. What Would You Do?
● Choose a focus film.
● Watch, watch and watch again,
noting ideas about
representations of gender
● Watch the other films and
make notes
● Research Disney and Gender
– research the specific films –
research gender and fairy tales
– research the 'root' stories
(fairy tales, myths and
legends)
9. And then what would you do?
● Record your findings
● Evaluate your
findings
● See where your
findings lead you
next
● Go back to your
notes, and the films,
and think again
10. What else might you look for?
● Marketing material
● Audio material – podcasts –
discussions – press
conferences
● AV material – as for audio.
● User generated AV
● Financial information – how
much did they cost and how
well did they do
● Awards
11. What will you do with this stuff?
● You will use what
you've learned to
write a presentation
script
● You will refer to your
research in the
presentation
● We will worry about
exactly how to write
this in the autumn.
