WS 225 Disney: Gender, Race, Empire
Explores constructions of gender, race, class, sexuality, and nation in the animated films of Walt Disney; introduces concepts in film theory and criticism, and develops analyses of the politics of representation. Recommended: Majors should complete WS 223 first.
Notes
Lower Division Transfer (LDT) Course
General Education Requirements
AAOT Arts & Letters, AS Difference, Power & Oppression
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Discuss and explain general concepts and themes in feminist film and media studies. Analyze the intersections of gender, race, class, sexuality, and nation. Demonstrate the necessary skills to historically and socially contextualize media images and representations, using a feminist framework. Demonstrate a theoretical framework for critical analysis of Disney representations in terms of gender, race, class, sexuality, and nation. Explain how ascribed differences are socially constructed, change over time, and impact our and others' lived experiences. Articulate- using historical and contemporary examples- how ascribed differences, combined with inequitable distribution of power across cultural, economic, social, and/or political institutions, result in racism and intersect with other forms of systemic oppression. Describe how assets and resilience demonstrated by members of systematically marginalized communities and cultures play a role in dismantling racism and other systems of oppression.