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From the iconic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to
Tangled, the 2010 retelling of Rapunzel, Handsome Heroes and Vile
Villains looks at the portrayal of male characters in Disney films
from the perspective of masculinity studies and feminist film
theory. This companion volume to Good Girls and Wicked Witches
places these depictions within the context of Hollywood and
American popular culture at the time of each film s release."
In Good Girls and Wicked Witches, Amy M. Davis re-examines the
notion that Disney heroines are rewarded for passivity. Davis
proceeds from the assumption that, in their representations of
femininity, Disney films both reflected and helped shape the
attitudes of the wider society, both at the time of their first
release and subsequently. Analyzing the construction of (mainly
human) female characters in the animated films of the Walt Disney
Studio between 1937 and 2001, she attempts to establish the extent
to which these characterizations were shaped by wider popular
stereotypes. Davis argues that it is within the most constructed of
all moving images of the female form the heroine of the animated
film that the most telling aspects of Woman as the subject of
Hollywood iconography and cultural ideas of American womanhood are
to be found."
Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema explores different representations of
dreams, visions, hallucinations, and hypnagogic states in Italian
film culture, covering the works of some of the most significant
auteurs in the history of Italian cinema (Fellini, Pasolini,
Moretti, Bellocchio, among others). Dreams are discussed both in a
filmic context, considering the diegetic and formal techniques
employed to construct and represent them, and as allegories or
metaphors in a broader cultural, political, and social sense (the
film industry itself as the proverbial dream factory, and dreams as
hopes, aspirations or altogether parallel universes, for example).
The book covers works released over different decades and spanning
multiple genres (drama, gothic film, horror, comedy), and it is
intended to shed light on a topic that is as suggestive as it is
insufficiently studied.
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