The Role Of Stereotypes In The Movie Snow White

For over ten decades, The Disney Corporation has been entertaining families with animated films. As such, Disney princesses have gained notoriety over the years and even received their own line of products in the 1990s. Moreover, Disney princess movies and related products have brought in billions of dollars through sales; and being a household name, children all around the world are familiar with the movies. What is critical here is that many of these movies, if not all, portray negative stereotypes that are subliminally hidden under the prestige of a “fairy tale world”. Likewise, many of these stereotypes are found in the movie “Snow White”; and are highlighted in the categories of gender, race, and social class. This paper seeks to analyze the ways in which negative stereotypes are

The introduction of photography and filmography has put women in the spotlights. Books and studies are filled with the way women are influenced by the way they are portrayed in films and photos and how positions and actions of women influence the way they are pictured and how they are stereotyped. One traditional and stereotypical view of a woman is the “honey I’m home” wife who stays in the kitchen doing the cooking and cleaning while wearing the perfect outfit. While this particular view is more centered on the 1950’s the basic ideas of the woman’s role has been the same for hundreds of years. Animated films form a special genre in which the protagonists vary from animals and fantasy figures to human figures. Yet, animated films form no exception when it comes to stereotyping the human figures.