Who was Walt Disney?

Representations in Disney

• Carolyn: Representations of race • Kailee: Representations of Women• David: Representations of Gays and Minorities• Rinky: The Commercialization of Disney

Representations of Race in Disney

Question

• How many Caucasian characters can you name that play lead roles?

• How many non-Eurocentric characters can you name that play lead roles?

Lady and the Tramp

Peter Pan

Dumbo

Aladdin

ALADDIN

• Song: Arabian Nights sang by the narrator in the intro of the movie

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPUAhSGZtvU• • “I come from a land…where they cut off your ears if they

don’t like your face. It’s barbaric, but hey, it’s home” (Maio, 1999).

• Tator, Henry and Mattis Pg 42 “The exhibitions liberal use of the quotation marks around the words and phrases charged with meaning such as ‘Darkest Africa,’ ‘the unknown continent’ ‘barbarous’ people” savage customs

The Jungle Book

Tarzan

Tarzan• “Strangers like me” Phil Collins

Whatever you do, I'll do it tooShow me everything and tell me howIt all means somethingAnd yet nothing to me

I can see there's so much to learnIt's all so close and yet so farI see myself as people see meOh, I just know there's something bigger out there

I wanna know, can you show meI wanna know about thesestrangers like meTell me more, please show meSomething's familiar about these strangers like me

The Lion King

Pocahontas

The Princess and the Frog