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This document is a film worksheet, likely for an undergraduate-level course in film studies. It contains a list of topics related to Disney films, asking the reader to analyze these films within specific contexts. The list of topics include technical, narrative and cultural aspects of the films.
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1. Nostalgia 2. Frank Newman / Newman's Laugh-o-grams 3. iris shot / panoramic effects 4. hybridity / sentimental modernism 5. hyperkineticism of modernity (Benjamin) 6. multiplane camera / motion and emotion 7. Old Mill 8. "illusion of life" / "caricature of realism" 9. Schneewittchen vs. S...
1. Nostalgia 2. Frank Newman / Newman's Laugh-o-grams 3. iris shot / panoramic effects 4. hybridity / sentimental modernism 5. hyperkineticism of modernity (Benjamin) 6. multiplane camera / motion and emotion 7. Old Mill 8. "illusion of life" / "caricature of realism" 9. Schneewittchen vs. Schneeweißchen 10. Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra / Deems Taylor 11. Fantasound 12. "The Sorceror's Apprentice" / "neatly ordered patriarchal realms" 13. Screen Cartoonists' Guild / collaboration 14. impressionism 15. Propriety 16. Disnature 17. Gustaf Tenggren / Marc Davis 18. Tyrus Wong / Orientalism 19. pastoral mode 20. point of view (POV) in Bambi 21. Disneyfication 22. NFB / The Thrifty Pig / Three Little Pigs 23. Donald Duck as wartime mascot 24. paranoid populism 25. superimposition or dissolve / symbolic logic 26. Edutainment 27. diegesis vs. non-diegesis 28. "new realism" vs. "caricature of realism" 29. expressionism in film 30. Rotoscoping 31. perfect girl / femme fatale / grandmother archetypes 32. pentimento / somatext 33. CAPS 34. "appeal" as a principle of animation / female labour 35. Deep Canvas 36. Get A Horse! 37. the "flawed" princess as "corrective" mechanism vs. "bourgeois" feminism 38. postfeminism / commodification of feminism 39. The Disney Princess designation 40. cinematic shots: Bokeh Close-ups extreme close-ups bird's eye view breaking the fourth wall shaky cam extreme wide shots shallow focus dolly shot dolly zoom 41. mimesis: hybridity, expressivity, photorealism v. hyperrealism 42. "user power" vs. corporation / threat of technology 43. traditional vs. CG/digital animation 44. back-lit animation / "painting with light" 45. 65mm / aspect ratio 46. chronos / kairos / aeon 47."straight" time vs. queer temporality 48. filmmaker/creative-driven process vs. executive-driven process 49. the Law or Rule of the Father / symbolic order 50. "new man" vs. hegemonic masculinity / vertical vs. horizontal homosociality 51. Intertextuality 52. simulacrum, simulation (Baudrillard) 53. media environment / media ecology 54. EPCOT 55. motion capture 56. LIDAR 57. remakes as a film genre 58. course correction 59. deferral / endless delays 60. Retcon 61. Multiverse 62. imagined Blackness, physical absence, Black effacement, blue-washing 63. PEP context ESSAY BRAINSTORMING 1. Walter Benjamin’s reading of Mickey Mouse as an icon, whose body and storylines reflect the collective realities and anxieties of Disney’s generation 2. Hybridity as seen in various aspects of Disney films (e.g., narrative, technical, cinematographic, etc.), and its relationship with the “futurity” of modernity 3. The dynamics of animation-as-art and collaborative labour, specifically in relation to Disney’s “creative genius” 4. History and time, and how they potentially inform Disney’s quest for a “neatly ordered patriarchal realm” rooted in a “golden past” 5. Representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality; feminism and masculinity in Disney; heteronormativity and “straight” time vs. queer temporality 6. Disneyfication as a process of regulation and control, and how nostalgia is dependent on it 7. The “Law” of the Father/Symbolic order, how Disney enforces it, and how we might be complicit in its perpetuation 8. Technology and its role in progressively creating Disney worlds, not just cinematically but also “in real life” (not just creating “illusion of life” or “caricatures of reality”, but actual influences on lifestyle and reality) ; the “threat” of technology KEY FILM POINTS Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs - released: Fantasia - released: Pinocchio - released: Bambi - released: The Story of Menstruation Tron - released: Frozen - released: The Little Mermaid - released: Cinderella - released: The Lion King - released: Toy Story - released: Wall-E - released: Beauty and the Beast - released: Captain Marvel - released:
