The magical world of patriarchy : exploring gender representations and faux feminism in “The sleeping beauty in the wood,” Sleeping beauty, and Maleficent
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: iSchool (Library, Archival and Information Studies)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Humiski, Marlo
issued: 2021-08-31T18:30:33Z
issued: 2021
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: In recent years, there has been an increase of feminist narratives in contemporary North American popular culture. However, some of these narratives perpetuate traditional gender messages under the pretences of feminism. This study examines faux feminist narratives in children’s films and how they convey patriarchal concepts of gender by analysing the history and trajectory of gender representations from one traditional conservative text to a recent text that purports to be feminist. Through the critical framework of adaptation theory (Hutcheon 2006; Zipes 2013; Blankier 2014), this study analyzes three versions of the fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty” from three different time periods: Charles Perrault’s seventeenth-century tale “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood,” Disney’s animated film Sleeping Beauty (1959), and Disney’s live-action film Maleficent (2014). The gender roles and gendered social structures in each text are examined to explore which gender representations have changed over time, and which representations have persisted throughout the three “Sleeping Beauty” texts. This study finds that while Maleficent may have feminist revisions, the film duplicates many sexist representations of gender found in the film’s source texts, conveying traditional gender roles and gendered social structures to contemporary audiences under the pretences of feminism.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/79548
note: The Magical World of Patriarchy: Exploring Gender Representations and Faux Feminism in “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood,” Sleeping Beauty, and Maleficent by MARLO HUMISKI B.A., The University of Winnipeg, 2015 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (Children’s Literature) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) August 2021 © Marlo Humiski, 2021 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the thesis entitled: The Magical World of Patriarchy: Exploring Gender Representations and Faux Feminism in “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood,” Sleeping Beauty, and Maleficent Submitted by by Marlo Humiski in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Children’s Literature Examining Committee: Dr. Rick Gooding, English Language and Literatures, UBC Supervisor Dr. Theresa Rogers, Language and Literacy Education, UBC Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Eric Meyers, School of Information, UBC Supervisory Committee Member iii Abstract In recent years, there has been an increase of feminist narratives in contemporary North American popular culture. However, some of these narratives perpetuate traditional gender messages under the pretences of feminism. This study examines faux feminist narratives in children’s films and how they convey patriarchal concepts of gender by analysing the history and trajectory of gender representations from one traditional conservative text to a recent text that purports to be feminist. Through the critical framework of adaptation theory (Hutcheon 2006; Zipes 2013; Blankier 2014), this study analyzes three versions of the fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty” from three different time periods: Charles Perrault’s seventeenth-century tale “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood,” Disney’s animated film Sleeping Beauty (1959), and Disney’s li…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2021-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0401811
language: eng
degree discipline: Children's Literature
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Gooding, Richard, 1960-
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/79548