Feminism In Disney Animation Essay

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nalysis of Feminism Trend in Animations
: focusing on Disney animation

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ⅠResearch Background Nowadays, people think that both men and women should be treated equally regardless of their genders. Moreover, they act against gender inequality and insist for their own rights to be treated same with their opposite-sexed counterparts. In the past, especially for women, these rights had been ignored and they were not expected to be treated nor respected same as men, So, there came a range of social movements to protect political, economical, personal, and social rights for women. This is called "feminism" which has been hot issue as the consciousness of women grew. Since feminism is a hot issue, this study predicts that animation movies …show more content…

Ⅲ Research Question Since animation movies are popular image media that reflects the society, this study assumes that animation movies reflect the feminism trend that has been hot issue in modern society. In order to confirm this assumption, there will be 2 research questions.
First, do the scripts of animation movies apply feminism? Second, do the relationships and actions of the caracters apply feminism? In order to identify these questions, there should be definition of feminism, In this study, the female characters' actions or words that are independent from the male characters' help will be regarded as feminism, since feminism means women being independent and getting their own economical, political, social and personal rights.

Ⅲ Research Methods To identify our research questions, both quantitative research method and qualitative method will be used. For quantitative research methods, voyant tool which identifies the most frequently-used words will be used to analyze massive amount of scripts. Qualitative research method will be used to analyze characters' relationships and …show more content…

만화애니메이션 연구". This study have shown how the movie 'frozen' has feminism trend comparing with Japanese animation 'Revolutionary Girl Utena'. In addition. there was study '페미니즘 관점으로 본 애니메이션 ‘겨울왕국’의 자매애' which focused on the feminism that appeared in the love between anna and elsa sister. For, previous study, this paper did the quantitative research with voyant tool. In order to identify the assumption briefly, this study chose two movies that were made in first feministic movements and in modern society in order to confirm the trends. The criteria of choosing movie was the popularity of the

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