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nineo21
Unregistered User
(11/4/05 6:01 pm)
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Sisters in Disney FIlms
I am doing a paper for my art history course. The class is called Sisters in Art: Representation vs. Reality. THe topic for my paper is The representation of sisters in Disney films, focusing on Cinderella, Belle (Beauty and the Beast) and Aurora (Sleeping Beauty). I am hoping that someone has the name of a book or a website that i could use for information. Thanks.
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evil little pixie
Registered User
(11/4/05 6:15 pm)
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Re: Sisters in Disney FIlms
Information on Disney:
www.surlalunefairytales.c...tales.html
Good luck!
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Veronica Schanoes
Registered User
(11/4/05 6:41 pm)
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Re: Sisters in Disney FIlms
I don't think there are any sisters in Sleeping Beauty, are there? Or are those three fairies supposed to be sisters? Disney drastically cut down the roles of the sisters in LM. It's an interesting topic. I'd love to know what you come up with.
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nineo21
Unregistered User
(11/4/05 6:46 pm)
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SIsters
I realize that there are no sisters in Sleeping Beauty or Beauty and the Beast and that makes the focus more the lack of sisters in disney movies, and in the consideration of Cinderella, the portrayal of sisters in disney...all the help you can give is greatly appreciated.
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AliceCEB
Registered User
(11/4/05 7:51 pm)
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Re: SIsters
Lilo and Stitch is an exception, I would think. There the sisters support for one another is central to the story.
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Writerpatrick
Registered User
(11/5/05 2:52 pm)
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Re: SIsters
Cinerella has step sisters and the three fairies in Sleeping Beauty I believe were sisters, but although the original story of Beauty and the Beast includes sisters, Disney seems to have left them out. It's odd that Little Mermaid isn't included in that group. Ariel has many sisters.
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Rosemary Lake
Registered User
(11/5/05 4:38 pm)
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overall pre-Disney
Of the better-known European fairy tales pre-Disney, I don't recall many sisters supporting sisters. The most famous sisters seem to be abusive (as in Cinderella), or foils (as in Beauty and the Beast), or both (Kind/Unkind girls). (In a feminist scoring, Disney might get points for leaving out the traditional shallow/foil sisters and mother who counsels betraying the beastly lover [tho I'm probably conflating tales here].)
Sisters often support brothers (and vice versa). The Seven Ravens, some Water of Life stories including one in Lang's Arabian Nights, Andersen's Snow Queen.
Exceptions... Snow White and Rose Red. Some English fairy tales where one sister takes heroic care of another: someone born with a spoon. Gold Tree and Silver Tree weren't sisters iirc, but they related that way.
Calvino has a happy mischievious Cinderella with two loving sisters (still foils tho, because they're less adventurous). Ok, his The Chicory Gatherers have good sisters, tho the heroine has her adventure alone. Istr other good multi-sister homes in Calvino also.
For that matter most brother/brother relationships in the better-known tales are abusive or foil or both.
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DividedSelf
Registered User
(11/6/05 7:47 am)
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Re: overall pre-Disney
There are other supportive sister stories. I'm sure I remember quite a few in Lang (but can't remember titles off-hand, sorry) of the wicked stepmother/stepdaughter variety, but where the stepdaughter who starts out wicked is really just under the influence of the mother, and once free she ends up helpful...
There's also one called The House in the Woods, which has three daughters following the pattern of a lot of three sons stories.
There's a story called Shaggy Top, which I only know through Maria Von Franz brief account, but is centrally a story of sisters helping each other.
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