- Paperback: 280 pages
- Publisher: Indiana University Press (February 20, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0861966732
- ISBN-13: 978-0861966738
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.
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