Thank you to...

 

My mother, for always being concerned for my project and trying her best to help even if she couldn't understand a word of my notes

 

My family, for tolerating my late-night binge watching of Disney films

 

My classmates, for their constant reassurance that my obession with nubile, young animated women was completely normal and not the butt of jokes at all

 

My friend, for accompanying me online on late nights just before judging days, rushing work together with me

 

(I would thank my mentor too, but his ego is big enough without needing me to stroke it for him.)

 

It is thanks to you all, that now I am no longer a Disney nerd, but rather, a Disney scholar.

 

And of course, I need to thank these authors for writing those lovely quotes for me to steal and abuse (and the papers the quotes were in I suppose).

 

References

 

Althusser, L. (1972). Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. Lenin and Philosophy and other Essays. pp. 121–176. (B.           Brewster, Trans.). New York City, New York: Monthly Review Press.

 

Brocklebank, L. Disney’s Mulan – the ‘True’ Deconstructed Heroine?” Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies 14.2           (2000): 268-283.

 

England, D. E., Descartes, L. & Collier-Meek, M. A. (2011). Gender Role Portrayal and the Disney Princess. DOI:                           10.1007/s11199-011-9930-7

 

Faherty, V. E. (2001). Is the Mouse Sensitive? A Study of Race, Gender, and Social Vulnerability in Disney Animated Films.           Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education, Vol. 1, Iss. 3. 1 – 8. DOI: 10.3138/sim.1.3.001

 

Flitterman-Lewis, S. (1987). Psychoanalysis, Film, And Television. In R. C. Allen. (Ed.), Channels of discourse. London:                  Methuen

 

Frueh, T., & McGee, P. E. (1975). Traditional sex role development and amount of time spent watching television.                             Developmental Psychology, 11, 109. DOI:1.1037/h0076133.

 

Haas, L. (1995). Eighty-Six the Mother: Murder, Matricide, and Good Mothers. In E. Bell., L. Haas. & L. Sells. (Eds.), From               Mouse To Mermaid: The Politics Of Film, Gender, and Culture (pp. 193 - 211). Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana                           University Press.

 

Hollinger, K. (2012). Feminist Film Studies. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

 

Indick, W. (2004). Psychology for Screenwriters. Studio City, California: Michael Wiese Productions.

 

Leaper, C. (2000). The social construction and socialization of gender during development. In P. H. Miller & E. Kofsky

          Scholnick (Eds.), Toward a feminist developmental psychology (pp. 127– 152). Florence: Taylor & Frances/Routledge.

 

Metz, C. (1982). The Imaginary Signifier. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

 

Mulvey, L. (1973). Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Screen. 16 (3). 6 – 18.

 

Mulvey, L. (1981). Afterthoughts on “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” inspired by Duel in the Sun. S. Thoruham. (ed.),           New York: New York University Press, pp.31 - 40.

 

Rowe, K. E. (1986). Feminism and Fairy Tales. In J. Zipes. (ed.), Don’t Bet on the Prince (pp. 209 – 223). Abingdon, Oxon:               Routledge.

 

Sawyer, N. Feminist outlooks at Disney Princess’s. James Madison University. Retrieved from:                                                            http://www.jmu.edu/commstudies/conflictanalysis/wm_library/SawyerFinal.pdf

 

Sells, L. (1995). Where Do the Mermaids Stand?: Voice and Body in The Little Mermaid. In E. Bell., L. Haas. & L. Sells.                     (Eds.),  From Mouse To Mermaid: The Politics Of Film, Gender, and Culture (pp. 175 - 192). Bloomington, Indiana:                 Indiana University Press.

 

Stover, C. (2013). Damsels and Heroines: The Conundrum of the Post-Feminist Disney Princess. A Journal of                                      Transdisciplinary Writing and Research from Claremont Graduate University, Vol. 2, Iss. 1, Article 29. Retrieved                      from: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/lux/vol2/iss1/29

 

Williams, T. M. (1981). How and what do children learn from television? Human Communication Research, 7, 180 –192.                      DOI:1.1111/j.1468-  2958.1981.tb00568.x.

 

Wynns, S.L. and Rosenfeld, L. B. (2003). Father-daughter relationships in Disney's animated films. Southern Communication               Journal, 68: 2, 91 — 106

 

Zipes, J. (1995). Breaking the Disney Spell. In E. Bell., L. Haas. & L. Sells. (Eds.), From Mouse To Mermaid: The Politics Of                 Film, Gender, and Culture (pp. 21 - 42). Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.

 

P.S. To Dr Chen, thanks for reading all the way here. I suppose your ego getting slightly bigger isn't that big an issue. Thank you for all your guidance, notes, and patience for this entire year. This project really would have been impossible without your help. Thank you! :)

 

 

P.P.S. Click the word "Film" on the menu to access the phallic symbol vault