232043 How manly is Mickey and how white is Snow White? Gender and Ethnicity in Disney Cartoons (S) (SoSe 2011)

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Disney’s animated movies disseminate pleasure and articulate cultural identities on a global scale. They are fun to watch, and they tell us what it means to be a white man or a woman of color, what the Orient is and what Africa looks like. In this class, we will analyze Disney cartoons as ideological apparatuses that articulate particular cultural identities through narrative, music, and visualization. We will pay special attention to how these films construct otherness in terms of gender and ethnicity and contribute to the distribution of unequal power relationships: What vision of feminity is propagated in Little Mermaid (1989) or Beauty and the Beast (1991)? Why are there no black people in Tarzan (1999)? How “Oriental” is the Other in Aladdin (1992) or Mulan (1998)?

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Degree programme/academic programme Validity Variant Subdivision Status Semester LP  
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Bachelor (Enrollment until SoSe 2011) Kern- und Nebenfach BaAngPM5; BaAngPM6   2/3  
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) BaAngPM5   2/3  
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Master of Education (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) BaAngPM5   2/3  
Gender Studies / Master (Enrollment until SoSe 2013) Hauptmodul 1; Hauptmodul 1.2   3 (bei Einzelleistung 3 LP zusätzlich)  

Credit Requirements:
• Regular attendance;
• Thorough knowledge of texts and movies (read and re-read, watch and re-watch);
• Participation in in-class discussions;
• In a group, facilitate one session (through a range of activities – no “referate,” please).
• For 3 CP: All of the above, plus a final exam on July 13.

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seminar (S) / 2
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Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
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