Deconstructing Disney's diva: a feminist psychoanalytic critique of the singing princess

Title: Deconstructing Disney's diva: a feminist psychoanalytic critique of the singing princess
Creator: Potgieter, Liske
Subject: Music -- Semiotics
Subject: Disney characters
Subject: Feminist music
Date Issued: 2015
Date: 2015
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MMus
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/3379
Identifier: vital:20427
Description: This study contributes to the discourse of the body and the voice in feminist psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic film theory by exploring the currently under-theorised notion of the singing body in particular, as this notion finds manifestation in Disney's Singing Princess. Analyses of musical coding and other filmic tropes follow the trajectory of the Singing Princess across thirteen Disney Princess films - from her first appearance in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) through to her most recent manifestation as Elsa in Frozen (2013) - to reveal deeper insight into what she sings, how she sings and why she sings.
Format: viii, 111 leaves
Format: pdf
Publisher: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Publisher: Faculty of Arts
Language: English
Rights: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

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