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(Re)Animating The Horror Genre: Explorations In Children's Animated Horror Films, Megan Estelle Troutman
(Re)Animating The Horror Genre: Explorations In Children's Animated Horror Films, Megan Estelle Troutman
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This project seeks to define the subgenre of children's animated horror film by examining its classification within the children's film genre and its use of generic conventions of horror. While this project does not aim to conflate children's film as a genre and animation as a medium, the scope of this project will be limited to children's animated horror films from 1993 - present day. In order to explore the subgenre of children's animated horror films from 1993-present, I will focus specifically on the following films: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were …
“Betches,” “Slams,” And Gender Construction: Satire (Mis)Use In Total Frat Move And Betches Love This, Jenna Gollands
“Betches,” “Slams,” And Gender Construction: Satire (Mis)Use In Total Frat Move And Betches Love This, Jenna Gollands
Communication Studies
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Moving Foward?: Problematic Ideologies In Twenty-First Century Fairy Tale Films, Alyson Kilmer
Moving Foward?: Problematic Ideologies In Twenty-First Century Fairy Tale Films, Alyson Kilmer
All Master's Theses
Fairy tales, as a reflection of our values and belief systems, are crucial in shaping and maintaining cultural ideologies. In the twenty-first century, cinematic fairy tales have the unique position of representing such values in an expansive and expeditious manner. Audiences must therefore be critically conscious of the messages promoted by these tales. An analysis of the five most popular contemporary fairy tale films, Disney’s Princess and the Frog (2009), Tangled (2010), Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), and Disney’s Frozen (2013) and Maleficent (2014), revealed minimal attempts to propitiate critical audiences in regard to changing cultural values, but …