News Paper Article
"Do Disney movies promote anti-semitism and racism?"
Shalita - A news paper researchist from LA times says :
"The movie opens with an Arab character that looks like a caricature of a Jew with a long nose and all of the Arab characters speak English with an Arabic accent except for Aladdin and Princess Jasmine who speak with an English accent... I am interested in what values are truly transferred to a child, and not just those on the surface" - this shows her concern for children and what messages Disney are actually feeding them.
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Source 5
http://www.listal.com/list/racist-disney
This is another webpage showing still images throughout Disney films - criticising how they may come across as racist.
Fantasia - Black child is a servant to a white centaurs and animals
Peter Pan - The indians are represented as savages and it shows their stupidity due to lack of knowledge.
Lady and the tramp - Siamese cats, "not to be trusted because of their slanty eye" and they are shown as mean and over educated.
Little Mermaid - Sebastian Lyrics:
"Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we devotin'
Full time to floatin'
Under the sea! "
This is another webpage showing still images throughout Disney films - criticising how they may come across as racist.
Fantasia - Black child is a servant to a white centaurs and animals
Peter Pan - The indians are represented as savages and it shows their stupidity due to lack of knowledge.
Lady and the tramp - Siamese cats, "not to be trusted because of their slanty eye" and they are shown as mean and over educated.
Little Mermaid - Sebastian Lyrics:
"Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we devotin'
Full time to floatin'
Under the sea! "
Source 4
This is a video created by the general public showing various stereotypical racial views throughout a few well know Disney films such as Beauty and the beast; Snow white; Mulan, Lady and the tramp and The jungle book. It shows how they are portrayed through out each of the films. For example, in fantasia, it shows that a small young black boy is a servant of a white animal - this is typical history of the world and they used it in that film.
Source 3
http://disneyandmovies.pbworks.com/w/page/17905676/1%20Pocahontas
Disney is portrayed as racist due to lyrics in several films such as Pocahontas and Aladdin.
This website explains the corporation of Disney and gives more in-depth information about cartoon animation and the background of films. For example, the lyrics in Pocahontas in one particular song say that the native americans are savages and pocahontas herself seems to be very un-educated about the world around her. Where as John Smith (British White, Blonde male) is very educated and well off with money and life styles representing that the British are wealthy and it shows this throughout the film when the British Chief gets greedy and tries to steal their gold and their land - makes us look like bad people. And lyrics from a song in a scene says "They're not like you and me. Which means they must be evil. Savages! Savages!" - which makes the British look stereotypical and self centered.
Disney is portrayed as racist due to lyrics in several films such as Pocahontas and Aladdin.
This website explains the corporation of Disney and gives more in-depth information about cartoon animation and the background of films. For example, the lyrics in Pocahontas in one particular song say that the native americans are savages and pocahontas herself seems to be very un-educated about the world around her. Where as John Smith (British White, Blonde male) is very educated and well off with money and life styles representing that the British are wealthy and it shows this throughout the film when the British Chief gets greedy and tries to steal their gold and their land - makes us look like bad people. And lyrics from a song in a scene says "They're not like you and me. Which means they must be evil. Savages! Savages!" - which makes the British look stereotypical and self centered.
Source 2
Disney book "Understanding Disney - The manufacture of Fantasy" by Janet Wasko
This book contains facts of Disney history and the problems and benefits that the studio company had faced such as box office figures and popularity in not just America but around the world as well. It also has roughly three pages per decription of issues that Disney could have came across, such as racism, religion, sexism and disability and how they have overcome these problems and how they have involved them in certain disney films such as Hunchback, Nemo and Dopey.
This book contains facts of Disney history and the problems and benefits that the studio company had faced such as box office figures and popularity in not just America but around the world as well. It also has roughly three pages per decription of issues that Disney could have came across, such as racism, religion, sexism and disability and how they have overcome these problems and how they have involved them in certain disney films such as Hunchback, Nemo and Dopey.
Source 1
http://www.units.muohio.edu/psybersite/disney/disneyculture.shtml
This website explains the problems Disney had to face from protestors and racial complaints from a wide fan base. The site gives examples from
Aladdin - "Dirty Arab"- Complaint from The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
The Lion King - Hyenas were voice over by Whoopi Goldberg and Cheech Marin. The hyenas are portratyed as African-American inner city ghetto equivalent of the jungle.
Pocahontas - The first film Disney made to stop recieving racial complaints - a young british man and a Native American this was created so that Disney could prove they had nothing against different races and they actually sent workers out to Jamestown, Virginia to make sure they got the characters correct.
This website explains the problems Disney had to face from protestors and racial complaints from a wide fan base. The site gives examples from
Aladdin - "Dirty Arab"- Complaint from The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
The Lion King - Hyenas were voice over by Whoopi Goldberg and Cheech Marin. The hyenas are portratyed as African-American inner city ghetto equivalent of the jungle.
Pocahontas - The first film Disney made to stop recieving racial complaints - a young british man and a Native American this was created so that Disney could prove they had nothing against different races and they actually sent workers out to Jamestown, Virginia to make sure they got the characters correct.
Area Of Research
Disney studios
Family entertainment using cartoon animation since the 1920s
Disney history and representation of race.
Family entertainment using cartoon animation since the 1920s
Disney history and representation of race.
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