Watch your selected Disney film or television show through intersectional and other feminist frameworks. While there is no required submission for this element of your project, the following guiding questions may be useful in engaging your selected media and/or structuring your eventual analysis.
How does reading your selected film(s) or television show(s) together deepen, shift, or expand your initial analysis and/or understanding of Disney media?
Informed by intersectional and other feminist frameworks, how are gender, race, sexuality, class, disability, and other intersecting social categories depicted within your selected media?
How are masculinity and/or femininity articulated within your selected media?
What flows of power and/or resistance are evident in your selected media?
What implicit and/or explicit narratives are told within your selected media?
When was this media produced? How does it reflect or relate to this moment or other broader social contexts?
How does your selected media affirm and/or trouble systems of oppression and their norms?
How does your selected media deepen, shift, or expand your understanding of interlocking systems of oppression including white supremacy, patriarchy, and ableism?
What creative modes of resistance and/or survival are enacted by characters marginalized within your selected media?
How was this media received by critics and/or the public when it was initially released? Have these attitudes shifted since its initial release? What are the possible implications or meanings of these attitudes?
