Tag: Female Character
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Wicked Wiles: How Feminist Is Disney’s ‘Beauty & The Beast’?
This article is part of the ‘Wicked Wiles’ series examining the positive and negative messages on gender that Disney Princess films impart to their target audience – girls.
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How The Female Gaze was Celebrated and Censored in Cardcaptor Sakura
Originally published for Bitch Flicks as part of their ‘Female Gaze’ theme week, 26th August 2015. With their starry eyes, cutesy costumes, Barbie-esque features, and catchphrases overflowing with dreamy positivity, the magical girls of the shojo (girls) genre of anime might not seem like the most feminist of heroines upon cursory glance. Yet, the plucky…
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WICKED WILES: Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Grumpy: ‘She’s a female! And all females is poison! They’re full of wicked wiles!’ Bashful: ‘What are wicked wiles?’ Grumpy: ‘I don’t know, but I’m against ’em.’
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Sparkly Vamps vs. Groggy Heroines: A possibly controversial Twilight/Hunger Games analysis.
It seems like decades has passed since I stayed up all night to read the entirety of New Moon in my room, lying on my bed on my stomach, legs crossed in the air in the manner that all teenage girls seem to read books in films. My mum came in at about 6:00am and…