Handsome Heroes & Vile Villains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handsome Heroes & Vile Villains write by Amy M. Davis. This book was released on 2014-01-31. Handsome Heroes & Vile Villains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From dwarves to princes, heroes to heartbreakers, the Disney treatment of male characters in the studio’s animated features. One of PopSugar’s Best Books for Women (2013) 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. “Within her idealism and love for the House of the Mouse, it seems Davis is on to something. Whether idealistic or delusional, the Disney she talks about seems to be a thing that’s waiting just around the corner.” —PopMatters
The Cultural Legacy of Disney
The Cultural Legacy of Disney - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cultural Legacy of Disney write by Robyn Muir. This book was released on 2024-08-06. The Cultural Legacy of Disney available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book critically engages with the Walt Disney Company as a global media conglomerate as they mark their 100th year of business. It reflects on and looks forward to the past, present and future of the company and the scholarly engagement surrounding it through three key areas: Disney as a Company, Disney’s Representations, and Relating to Disney. ‘Disney as a Company’ identifies the corporate and management cultural changes over Disney’s 100-year history, with contributors examining Disney’s transnational media influence, changes in management strategy, and Disney’s recent transmedia venture: Disney+. ‘Disney’s Representations’ features chapters critically engaging with gender, disability, and iconic characters that imply cultural change. ‘Relating to Disney’ embodies the crucial work examining how audiences engage with Disney, with contributors exploring fashion, Disney Fandom and identity, and how people engage with the space of the Parks. This edited collection explores the newer additions to the company, but also reflects on the company’s past over its 100 years. The chapters provide a diverse examination of the many facets of one of the most successful global media conglomerates, providing scholars, students, and interested audiences a global and interdisciplinary snapshot of the Walt Disney Company at 100 years.
The Villain's Journey
The Villain's Journey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Villain's Journey write by Valerie Estelle Frankel. This book was released on 2021-11-08. The Villain's Journey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The villain's journey is rare in popular culture--most characters are fully-formed tyrants with little to no story arc. However, a few particularly epic series take the time to develop complex villains, including Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Increasingly, villains' origin stories have found new popularity through films like Wicked, Maleficent, and Despicable Me, alongside shows starring serial killers and Machiavellian schemers. This book examines the villain's decline and subsequent struggle toward redemption, asking why these characters are willing to cross moral lines that "good" characters are not. The first half follows characters like Loki, Jessica Jones and Killmonger through the villain's journey: an inverse or twisted version of scholar Joseph Cambell's hero's journey. The remainder of this book examines the many different villainous archetypes such as the trickster, the outcast, the tyrant, or the misunderstood hero in greater detail. Written for writers, creators, fans, and mythologists, this book offers a peek into the minds of some of fiction's greatest villains.
Gender and the Male Character in 21st Century Fairy Tale Narratives
Gender and the Male Character in 21st Century Fairy Tale Narratives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and the Male Character in 21st Century Fairy Tale Narratives write by Natalie Le Clue. This book was released on 2024-09-16. Gender and the Male Character in 21st Century Fairy Tale Narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Putting Prince Charming in the academic spotlight, this collection examines the evolution of male fairy tale characters across modern series and films to bridge a gap that afflicts multiple disciplines.
Gothic Afterlives
Gothic Afterlives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gothic Afterlives write by Lorna Piatti-Farnell. This book was released on 2019-09-13. Gothic Afterlives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gothic Afterlives examines the intersecting dimensions of contemporary Gothic horror and remakes scholarship, bringing together innovative perspectives from different areas of study. The research compiled in this collection covers a wide range of examples, including not only literature but also film, television, video games, and digital media remakes. Gothic Afterlives signals the cultural and conceptual impact of Gothic horror on transmedia production, with a focus on reimagining and remaking. While diverse in content and approach, all chapters pivot on two important points: first, they reflect some of the core preoccupations of Gothic horror by subverting cultural and social certainties about notions such as the body, technology, consumption, human nature, digitalization, scientific experimentation, national identity, memory, and gender and by challenging the boundaries between human and inhuman, self and Other, and good and evil. Second, and perhaps most important, all chapters in the collection collectively show what happens when well-known Gothic horror narratives are adapted and remade into different contexts, highlighting the implications of the mode-shifting registers, platforms, and chronologies in the process. As a collection, Gothic Afterlives hones in on contemporary sociocultural experiences and identities as they appear in contemporary popular culture and in the stories told and retold in the twenty-first century.
