Mulan and Moana
Embedded Coloniality and the Search for Authenticity in Disney Animated Film
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5935126 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Anya Anjirbag (0000-0002-4479-408X, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 230 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-11 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci7110230 |
| OpenAlex | W2899549145 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 5 |
As the consciousness of coloniality, diversity, and the necessity of not only token depictions of otherness but accurate representations of diversity in literature and film has grown, there has been a shift in the processes of adaptation and appropriation used by major film production companies and how they approach representing the other. One clear example of this is the comparison of the depiction of diverse, cross-cultural womanhood between Walt Disney Animation Studio's Mulan (1998) and Moana (2016). This paper will use a cross-period approach to explore the ways in which a global media conglomerate has and has not shifted its approach to appropriation of the multicultural as other and the implications for representational diversity in the context of globalization and a projected global culture. In one case, a cultural historical tale was decontextualized and reframed, while in the other, cultural actors had a degree of input in the film representation. By examining culturally specific criticisms and scenes from each film, I will explore how the legacy of coloniality can still be seen embedded in the framing of each film, despite the studio's stated intentions towards diversity and multiculturalism
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Context (archaeology · Cultural diversity · Depiction · Diversity (politics · Epistemology · Ethnocentrism · Globalization · Multiculturalism · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising
Dealing with Fear
“Yellow Skin, White Masks”
Cultural Differences in Mulan between Chinese Version and Disney Version
The self-contradiction and double identities in understanding anthropomorphic Sino-figures in Chinese post-colonial animation criticism studies
Mulan’s travel from ballad to movie
Disney in Black and White
But They Still Lived Happily Ever After – or at Least, Happily
Learning an Inclusive Blue Humanities
Reframing Mulan across borders
Roro Jonggrang
From Moana to Vaiana
The Spirit of Aloha
The precarious promotion of progress
When difference comes with school
Algunas personas aquí han venido con coyote como Areli?”
Religion-Making in the Disney Feature Film, Frozen II
Chief Tui Makes Way
| Citations per year | 2.83 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |