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EPISODE · Aug 11, 2020 · 1H 43M

Cinderella

from Deconstructing Disney · host Erin Casey, Rachel Casey

Episode SummaryDisney’s Cinderella thrilled Erin and Rachel almost as much as it thrilled 1950 audiences, with “almost” being the operative word. The co-hosts revisit their favorite topics of gender roles and colonization, while also debating what, exactly, dreams are made of for the second Disney princess. Episode BibliographyBeauchamp, F. (2010). Asian origins of Cinderella: The Zhuang storyteller of Guangxi. Oral Tradition, 25(2), 447-496.Cinderella. (2020, June 20). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinderellaCinderella (1950 fim). (2020, June 25) In Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20200619065636/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_(1950_film)England, D. E., Descartes, L., Collier-Meek, M. A. (2011). Gender role portrayal and the Disney princesses. Sex Roles, 64, 555-567. Geronimi, C., Luske, H., & Jackson, W. (Directors). (1950). Cinderella [Film]. Walt Disney Animation Studios.Giaimo, C. (2017, June 14). The ATU Fable Index: Like the Dewey Decimal System, But With More Ogres. Atlas Obscura. Retrieved from https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/aarne-thompson-uther-tale-type-index-fables-fairy-talesHiggs, S. (2016). Damsels in development: Representation, transition, and the Disney princess. Screen Education, 83, 62-69. Hovdestad, W. E., Hubka, D., & Tonmyr, L. (2009). Unwanted personal contact and risky situations in ten Disney animated feature films. Child Abuse Review, 18, 111-126. Huggins, N. I. (1971). Harlem renaissance. Oxford University Press. Mahar, W. J. (1985). Black English in early Blackface minstrelsy: A new interpretation of the sources of minstrel show dialect. American Quarterly, 37(2), 260-285.Maurice Rapf. (2020, June 25). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20190118074308/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Rapf Rosalind Sibielski (2019) Reviving Cinderella: Contested Feminism and Conflicting Models of Female Empowerment in 21st-Century Film and Television Adaptations of “Cinderella”, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 36:7, 584-610Tennant, A. (Director). (1998). Ever After: A Cinderella Story [Film]. Twentieth Century Fox Films. Tóth, Z. A. (2017). Disney’s violent women: In quest of a ‘fully real’ violent woman in American cinema. Brno Studies in English, 43(1), 185-212.Wood, N. (1996). Domesticating dreams in Walt Disney’s Cinderella. The Lion and the Unicorn, 20 (1), 25-43. doi:10.1353/uni.1996.0003.

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