Discuss how the representation of women In Disney films has changed overtime With referace to 'Snow White' and 'Mulan'.

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Discuss how the representation of women

In Disney films has changed overtime

With referace to ‘Snow White’ and ‘Mulan’ 

Introduction

Representation is the term given to describe the final image, which has been recorded and then processed to depict a real or fictional subject in a media form.

Women have changed over the years to catch up with modern audiences by changing their appearance the way they dress the way they behave their personality how they act in the actual film for example in Snow White she is always shown doing the house work cooking cleaning that’s about it really. In Mulan although her parents want her to get married and settle down she doesn’t want to she is kind of girl who is up for an adventure this would never be allowed in Snow Whites time.

The word stereotype is meant by characters that are fixed and customary ideas that we grow to accept as being normal.

Snow White (1937)

The two scenes that we discussed in Snow White were the’ Good verse evil’ and the ending where the ‘prince saves her’, but first I am going to briefly explain on want Snow White is about.

Disney's first full-length animated masterpiece features all the elements of a classic fairy tale a beautiful young, pretty, virginal heroine, an evil queen, Prince Charming and a septet of whistling dwarfs. In hiding from her jealous and wicked stepmother who wants to kill her because she is the most fairest of them all and not her, the fair Snow White takes refuge with a band of kind-hearted, hard-working dwarves: Bashful, Sneezy, Sleepy, Happy, Grumpy, Dopey and Doc. Eventually the vain queen finds Snow White she discises her self as and old women who is selling apples and tricks her into eating a poisoned apple. Luckily, a wandering prince comes to her rescue with one kiss the spell is broken and Snow White lives happily ever after.

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In the first scene that I am going to discuss Snow White is shown singing love and romantic songs and baking a pie, the weather is nice and sunny with birds singing Snow Whites expectations are that one day her prince will come and marry her and they would live happily ever after this is a typical ending of a Disney film. When the witch is shown (Another typical Disney character she is always destroyed) there is all of a sudden a shadow that casts over Snow Whites face through the window and makes her jump and from romantic ...

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