Union College Union | Digital Works Honors Theses Student Work 6-2017 Breaking the Glass Slipper: Analyzing Female Figures' Roles in Disney Animated Cinema from 1950-2013 Brianna Prudencia Gutiérrez Union College - Schenectady, NY Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalworks.union.edu/theses Part of the Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, Film and Media Studies Commons, Gender and Sexuality Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Recommended Citation Gutiérrez, Brianna Prudencia, "Breaking the Glass Slipper: Analyzing Female Figures' Roles in Disney Animated Cinema from 1950-2013" (2017). Honors Theses. 39. https://digitalworks.union.edu/theses/39 This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Work at Union | Digital Works. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of Union | Digital Works. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Breaking the Glass Slipper: Analyzing Female Figures’ Roles in Disney Animated Cinema from 1950-2013 By Brianna Prudencia Gutiérrez *************** Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Honors in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program UNION COLLEGE March 2017 Contents Acknowledgments………………………………………………………………………………iii Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………………iv-v Introduction: An Overview of Disney Animated Female Representation from 1950-2013 & Figures…………………………………………………………………………………………1-29 Chapter 1: The Traditional Disney Animated Female Characters & Figures ……………… 30-52 Chapter 2: The Complex Disney Animated Female Characters & Figures…………………53-91 Chapter 3: The Negative and Positive Non-traditional Disney Animated Female Characters & Figures…………………………………………………………………………...………….92-144 Conclusion: Disney Animated Female Figures Then and Now and Where They are Going & Figures…………………………………………………………………………...……… 145-152 Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………...….153-159 ii Acknowledgments I have been asked why I decided to do a critical analysis of Disney Animated Cinema for my thesis.