PRECEDENT NAMES OF THE WALT DISNEY ANIMATED DISCOURSE CHARACTERS

Do Animated Disney Characters Portray and Promote the BeautyGoodness Stereotype?

Disney movies are frequently cited as a source of the what-is-beautiful-is-good stereotype. Two studies (a) assessed prevalence of the stereotype across animated Disney movies; and (b) examined whether exposure to such films influences children's judgments of peers. In Study 1, human characters in 21 films were rated on attractiveness, goodness, and character outcome. Regression analyses demons...

Digital Surrealism: Visualizing Walt Disney Animation Studios

There are a number of fruitful digital humanities approaches to cinema and media studies, but most of them only pursue traditional forms of scholarship by extracting a single variable from the audiovisual text that is already legible to scholars. Instead, cinema and media studies should pursue a mostly-ignored “digital-surrealism” that uses computer-based methods to transform film texts in radi...

Walt Disney World: Marxism and Myth Creation

Microclimatic Impact: Glare around the Walt Disney Concert Hall

Buildings have an impact on the environment at a macroscale in terms of the resources that they use. But they also have an impact in the microclimate of their immediate surroundings. One such building is the Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by Frank Gehry. It is a landmark, scintillating building, in more ways than one. Occupants of surrounding buildings have complained of elevated temperatur...

Mental illness in Disney animated films.

OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence of verbalizations about mental illness in the animated feature films of The Walt Disney Company (TWDC). We discuss the results within the context of children's repeated exposure to popular animated movies and their learning of labels and stereotypes associated with mental illness. We recommend further research on this topic. METHOD We coded 34 animated feat...