Barbie & Disney Princesses
ENG-300Y-1
Binghamton University
- Semester
- Summer 2024
- Instructor
- Zunaira Yousaf
- Start Date
- 05-28-2024
- Total Credits
- 4
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- 607-777-6088
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This course studies representations of changing gender conventions in the films Barbie (2023), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Moana (2016), Frozen (2013) and Mulan (1998). We will explore how and why the women protagonists perform sacrifice, protect their sisterhood, and support their families and communities. Moreover, why do the princesses’ films mostly pivot on a good vs evil binary, equating the women protagonists with an idea of good constructed by patriarchy? We will also study how Barbies challenges the patriarchal glorification of women’s oppression, and dismisses the admiration of damsels-in-distress. The course will evaluate how Barbie leaps “out of the box”, confronts the reality, carves her identity, and almost shatters patriarchy Ken embodies. Broadly, we will discuss how do Mattel and Disney, two franchises behind the above films complicate female agency, re-writing the traditional patriarchal narratives?
General Education Area(s): Basic Communication
Course Area: English & Literature
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Dates: 05-28-2024 - 07-01-2024
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