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Sixty years on: Has Cinderella on film got trapped in The Valley of the Dolls?
I rather enjoyed the new live action Disney Cinderella. We’re reviewing it on Front Row on Monday Mar 23rd. But the issues raised here still stand. Imagine Cinderella as a anti social tomboy with cropped black hair who acts well, just … Continue reading
Frozen? That’s not feminism
My daughter finally got me to watch Frozen recently. I think she’s sorry she did. Though I sense 13 year old girls are watching it with a sense of irony and a kind of knowing detachment in the way my … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Film, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Uncategorized
Tagged Casablanca, Disney, elsa, fairytales, feminism, frozen, lady and the tramp, marvel, meryl o rourke, Ming-Na Wen, mulan, richard chamberlain, the slipper and the rose, thor
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