How Disney’s films represent

the

culture and society of the time in

which they were made.

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Cinderella: 1950 Aladdin: 1992 Frozen: 2013

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What will I cover?

How Disney princesses have changed over time

How Disney's morals have changed

How they have had to adapt to current life in society

The societies portrayed within these films are very different to each other.

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The ideas, customs and social behaviour of a particular

people or society.

The aggregate of people living together in a more or

ordered community.

Disney has been working actively since 1937 producing very successful films, some being:

Lion King

Toy Story 3

Frozen

Beauty and the Beast

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The movie Aladdin shows stereotypical imagery within the lyrics to the opening song

‘Arabian Nights’. This was seen as offensive to society.

The lyrics originally used were:

1.“Oh, I come from a land

2.From a faraway place

3.Where the caravan camels roam.

4.Where they cut off your ear

5.If they don’t like your face

6.It’s barbaric, but hey, it’s home.”

After 6 months lines 4 and 5 were changed to:

4. “Where it’s flat and immense

5. And the heat is intense”

4) “Finally, here is something that all little

girls, especially young black girls, can

embrace,”

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2) “Aladdin” ran into trouble in 1993. The

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

labelled certain song lyrics defamatory. 3) “Overly sensitive people

see racial or ethnic slights in

every image,” wrote Floyd

Norman

1) “I don’t know how important having a black princess

is to little girls — my daughter loves Ariel and I see

nothing wrong with that — but I think it’s important to

moms,”

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