The three sources that I will be using the podcast are, Looking into the Magic Mirror, a podcast called “The Little Mermaid-Body Image, Ursula, Finding Love, and Competition Between Women'', and Jean Killbourne’s Melting us Softly.
Looking into the Magic Mirror
Quote: “No matter how much they have changed over the decades as new artists, technologies, and attitudes contributed to the creation of Disney Princesses, the combination of innocence and sex-appeal in a teen-aged body has prevailed” (Haas & Trapedo 6).
Looking into the Magic Mirror is about how Disney has influenced individuals and future fairy tale films. It discusses the progressions from early disney films to films that display the modern values. This first source, Looking into the Magic Mirror will be used to talk about how Disney has changed how they portray women compared to older fairy tale films. However, I will also use it to discuss how some aspects of Disney fairy tale films represent the earlier idea of how a woman should look.
The Little Mermaid-Body Image, Ursula, Finding Love, and Competition Between Women
Quote: 11:30 The speakers talk about how they moviemakers “oversexualized” Ariel’s body despite being only 16 years old. This gives young audiences the image that they need to have a small waist and curves in order to be pretty which then leads to body issues and insecurities. The speakers say that most of these things are things they hadn’t realized when they were younger.
The next source is the podcast, “The Little Mermaid-Body Image, Ursula, Finding Love, and Competition Between Women.” This podcast focuses on the film, The Little Mermaid and its influence on their audience which are younger girls. They talk about how this film has shown societal values of women and their own experiences when watching it as children. I will use this source to reference how their own personal experiences have been affected inorder to build on my argument that Disney is creating unhealthy beauty standards for women.
Melting Us Softly
Quote: 4:10: Killbourne uses a quote from Rance Crain, the former senior editor of Advertising Age, “only 8% of an ad’s message is received by the conscious mind. The rest is worked and reworked deep within the recesses of the brain” (Killbourne, 4:10).
The last source I will reference is Jean Killbourne’s Melting Us Softly. This is about how advertisements affect humans and their values. Although people can argue that children will not be able to get the effects of gender portrayal from films I do not think that is the case. Jean Killbourne says that influences of ads come through the subconscious so you may not even know you are being affected. This works the same way for Disney Films and its effect on children.
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