The Effectiveness of Female Roles in the Disney Films

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220110.193How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Feminism; the United States; Disney’s films; Feminist Character; Social Identity Theory; Cognitive theory

Abstract

Feminism is a movement that arose from the changes in women’s consciousness of their rights and status in society. During the 20th century, a surge of the feminist movements promoted by education became a significant and decisive factor in the tremendous improvement of women’s status all around the world. This paper aims to explore the social impacts of Disney films made in the United States in the 20th century. The paper further confirms the social identity theory and cognitive theory to point out how Disney movies promote the unity of feminists and how they raise the consciousness of rights and fight for women’s rights. This paper concludes that Disney movies improve the inspiration for feminism and the independence of women, and just push the women’s status in a positive direction. The process and development of feminist characters of Disney movies are then discussed and presented.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yiwen Chen
AU  - Xuanya Huang
AU  - Yifan Zou
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/28
TI  - The Effectiveness of Female Roles in the Disney Films
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Art and Human Development ( ICPAHD 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1022
EP  - 1030
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220110.193
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220110.193
ID  - Chen2022
ER  -