Drawing Disney

Analyzing Artistic Reinterpretations of Disney Deaths

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13630709
AutoresMarissa Lammon (0000-0002-1640-091X, University of Colorado Boulder, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen91
Número4
Páginas1693-1721
Fecha de publicación2023-03-14
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00302228231161759
PMID36918288
OpenAlexW4324130939
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas17

Disney's notably traumatic character deaths have been the focus of several academic studies that identify the potential harm of witnessing animated deaths during childhood; however, these studies have almost exclusively examined death images within film without looking to images that exist external to the media texts themselves. This paper addresses such limitations by uniquely examining how audiences use/produce images to offer reinterpretations of popular death scenes in Disney films. The components of user-generated images, descriptions, and comments on deviantart.com indicate that audiences utilize creative expression to communicate the traumatic experience of viewing character deaths during childhood, change elements that are frustratingly inaccurate, and re-write narratives to challenge assumptions of sympathy. Such an analysis considers what these artistic expressions might suggest about the decoding of animated death by consumers and encourages new ways of thinking about the consumption and interpretation of death narratives

Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics · Expression (computer science · Harm · Interpretation (philosophy · Literature · Narrative · Perspective (graphical · Sympathy · Visual arts · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media Influence and Health · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology · Social Psychology