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Women's Studies in Communication Volume 19, 1996 - Issue 2: Gender and the World of Disney
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The Happiest Films on Earth: A Textual and Contextual Analysis of Walt Disney's Cinderella and The Little Mermaid

Pamela Colby O'BrienView further author information
Pages 155-183 | Published online: 26 Feb 2015

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Jessica D. Zurcher & Tom Robinson. (2018) From “Bibbid-Bobbidi-Boo” to Scrooge: an update and comparative analysis of the portrayal of older characters in recent Disney animated films. Journal of Children and Media 12:1, pages 1-15.
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Erin L. Ryan & Keisha L. Hoerrner. (2004) Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide: Smoking and Drinking in Disney's Animated Classics. Mass Communication and Society 7:3, pages 261-278.
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Lee Artz. (2004) The righteousness of self-centred royals: The world according to Disney animation. Critical Arts 18:1, pages 116-146.
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ScarletL. Wynns & LawrenceB. Rosenfeld. (2003) Father‐daughter relationships in Disney's animated films. Southern Communication Journal 68:2, pages 91-106.
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Lauren Dundes. (2001) Disney’s modern heroine Pocahontas: revealing age-old gender stereotypes and role discontinuity under a façade of liberation. The Social Science Journal 38:3, pages 353-365.
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Lauren Dundes & Alan Dundes. (2000) The Trident and the Fork: Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ as a male construction of an Electral fantasy. Psychoanalytic Studies 2:2, pages 117-130.
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Christine Scodari. (1998) “No Politics Here”: Age and Gender in Soap Opera “Cyberfandom”. Women's Studies in Communication 21:2, pages 168-187.
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Lena Lee. (2008) Understanding Gender through Disney’s Marriages: A Study of Young Korean Immigrant Girls. Early Childhood Education Journal 36:1, pages 11-18.
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Tom Robinson, Mark Callister, Dawn Magoffin & Jennifer Moore. (2007) The portrayal of older characters in Disney animated films. Journal of Aging Studies 21:3, pages 203-213.
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