Feminine Empowerment in Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12099397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sharon D Downey (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 185-212 |
| Publication date | 1996-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s Studies in Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0749-1409 • E-ISSN: 2152-999X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07491409.1996.11089812 |
| OpenAlex | W2157035436 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 27 |
This analysis or Disney's fairy tale Beauty and the Beast argues that the film develops two contrasting narratives—female and male—through a blending of discursive and nondiscursive elements. As a result, the film creates a female spectatorship position which, in turn, gives rise to a dialectical perspective on power that resolves the gendered tension between these two narratives and opens the film to multiple interpretations, including a potentially empowering one for female viewers
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Dialectic · Empowerment · Epistemology · Literature · Narrative · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · Visual arts · Digital Games and Media · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2021 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |