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Always the Princess, Never the Queen Female Authority Figures in Movie Adaptations of Fairy Tales Always the Princess, Never the Queen Female authority figures in movie adaptations of fairy tales Name: Sarah Danz (s4041232) E-mail: [email protected] Supervisor: dr. M.P.J. Sanders Examinor: dr. T.M.J. Sintobin Date: 27-06-2016 Abstract Sprookjesadaptaties hebben veel bekende conventies; het is een genre waarin prinsessen, prinsen, heksen, en magie een rol spelen en waarin de hoofdpersoon altijd nog ‘lang en gelukkig’ leeft. Een van de conventies is het stereotype van de goede maar passieve prinses tegenover de slechte, machtige koningin. In sprookjesadaptaties schijnt autoriteit voor vrouwen inherent verbonden te zijn aan slechtheid. In recente adaptaties lijkt dit echter te veranderen; prinsessen worden actiever en koninginnen worden niet meer neergezet als puur slecht. In deze scriptie onderzoek ik of deze stereotypen daadwerkelijk aan het veranderen zijn. Mijn onderzoeksvraag is: Hoe zijn het prinses- en koninginstereotypen aan het veranderen in hedendaagse filmadaptaties van sprookjes? Mijn hypothese is dat, hoewel het op het eerste gezicht lijkt dat de stereotypen aan het veranderen zijn, bij nadere analyse prinsessen nog steeds passieve personages zijn, terwijl autoriteit vooral voorbehouden is voor slechte, vrouwelijke personages. Om mijn onderzoeksvraag te beantwoorden heb ik 6 films geanalyseerd, verdeeld in 3 casussen. In mijn eerste casus heb ik gekeken naar traditionele adaptaties; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) en Sleeping Beauty (1959). In mijn tweede casus heb ik gekeken naar twee recente geanimeerde adaptaties: Tangled (2010) en Frozen (2013). In mijn laatste casus heb ik gekeken naar twee recente ‘live-action’ adaptaties: Maleficent (2014) en Snow White and the Huntsman (2012). Van deze casussen heb ik kort een objectbeschrijving gegeven. Daarna heb ik ze geanalyseerd met behulp van het actantieel model van Algirdas Greimas, om de veranderende rollen van vrouwelijke autoriteitsfiguren in adaptaties te analyseren en de casussen met elkaar te kunnen vergelijken. Daarnaast heb ik Susan Lanser’s concept van ‘discursive authority’ uit het boek Fictions of Authority gebruikt om zowel de autoriteit die personages zelf claimen, als de autoriteit die ze verkrijgen of verliezen door interactie te analyseren. Ik heb hierbij drie categorieën gehanteerd die Lanser gebruikt als definitie van ‘discursive authority’: intellectuele geloofwaardigheid, ideologische validiteit, en esthetische waarde. Uit mijn onderzoek bleek dat, hoewel er zeker aspecten binnen de stereotypen aan het veranderen zijn, mijn hypothese niet helemaal ontkracht kan worden. Vooral nieuwe animatieadaptaties bleken een complexer en genuanceerder beeld te geven van vrouwelijke autoriteitsfiguren, terwijl de ‘live-action’ adaptaties, die juist een duisterdere sfeer neerzetten en gericht zijn op een volwassen publiek, meer teruggrijpen op een traditioneel, eendimensionaal beeld. Hoewel deze adaptaties wel spelen met de bekende conventies, waren het vooral de animatieadaptaties die op een dieper niveau deze conventies veranderden. 1 Contents Abstract ............................................................................................................................................. 1 Contents ............................................................................................................................................ 2 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 3 Fairy tales and the princess and queen stereotypes ....................................................................... 7 Theoretical framework ................................................................................................................ 12 Case 1: The Traditional Princesses and Queens ........................................................................ 16 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) .................................................................................. 16 Sleeping Beauty (1959) ............................................................................................................... 22 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................. 28 Case 2: New Animation ................................................................................................................ 30 Tangled (2010) ............................................................................................................................ 30 Frozen (2013) ............................................................................................................................. 37 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................. 45 Case 3: Live Action Adaptations ................................................................................................. 48 Maleficent (2014) ........................................................................................................................ 48 Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) ........................................................................................ 55 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................. 63 Analysis and Conclusion .............................................................................................................. 65 Actantial level ............................................................................................................................. 65 Authority ..................................................................................................................................... 67 Discursive level ........................................................................................................................... 69 Genre ........................................................................................................................................... 70 Gender ......................................................................................................................................... 72 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................. 75 Bibliography ................................................................................................................................... 79 Appendix 1 ...................................................................................................................................... 81 2 Introduction On January 25, 2016, The Washington Post published an article based on the preliminary findings of a project to analyze all the dialogue from the Disney princess franchise done by linguists Carmen Fought and Karen Eisenhauer. These preliminary findings were surprising; looking at the percentage of words spoken, the division between men and women turned out to be more balanced in the ‘classic’ princess movies (Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty) than in films from the ‘90s. Furthermore, when looking at the number of speaking roles, more recent princess films have larger casts, but also more lopsided ones.1 However, the objection was immediately made, for example by journalist Darlena Cunha on the website of Time, that looking at movies from this perspective does not take into account the roles women play in films.2 Looking at the roles women play in fairy tale adaptations, they mostly seem to be royalty, but never good ruling sovereigns. In their stories there is often a king who is the ruling monarch or at the end of the story the princess marries, making her husband the next in line to rule; of the eleven princesses in the current Disney Princess merchandise line-up (2016), ten have a love-interest in their principal movie, three marry at the end of their story, three are officially engaged and two are implied to get married by telling us ‘they lived happily ever after’. Only two ‘princesses’ by birth are not set up to be married at the end of their stories: Pocahontas and Merida.3 Whereas the Disney princesses thus do not become rulers, the word ‘queen’ in fairy tale adaptations has inextricably become tied to the word ‘evil’. Women with authority are either portrayed as loving (and often deceased) mothers, or as powerful antagonists.4 Especially through Disney’s first three princess-movies (Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty), the stereotype of an innocent, pretty heroine persecuted by an evil female villain has become reinforced.5 However, these stereotypes are not static. Just as the fairy tales of which they are part, they depend on transformation for survival.6 The stories and thus the stereotypes within them 1 Guo, Jeff. (2016) ‘Researchers have found a major problem with ‘The Little Mermaid’ and other Disney movies.’, in: The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/25/researchers-have-discovered-a-major- problem-with-the-little-mermaid-and-other-disney-movies/ (20-05-2016). 2 Cunha, Darlena. (2016) ‘The Point of a Disney Princess Isn’t Her Talking Time.’, in: Time. http://time.com/4196181/disney-princesses-talking-time/ (20-05-2016). 3 See appendix 1 for more information. 4 Wohlwend, Karen (2009) ‘Damsels in Discourse: Girls Consuming and Producing Identity Texts through Disney Princess Play’, in: Reading Research Quarterly,
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