Saturday, March 17, 2012

Sexual subliminal messages in Disney

The very first important step one should do in writing this research paper is to not procrastinate. The time it takes to research is very consuming, especially if there are not many resources on your specific topic. For sexual subliminal messages in Disney, I had to research on the whole subject of subliminal messages and its effects rather than the messages in Disney. Not to mention, I wanted to talk about how it would affect children and if these messages would make them more promiscuous. Therefore, I tried looking for books, articles, and what not on the sexualization of children. I tried to analyze all my information in order to come up with an analysis from my own interpretive. It's a bit difficult to write about a topic whereas there is no answer, but using words such as: perhaps, maybe, or possibly, gives your paper a creative and innovative answer from your own perspective. Moreover, I want to know the real reason to why Disney puts subliminal messages in their movies, but there really is no answer given in resources because Disney always denies that they had inputted these provocative images and words.

My topic/research paper was: Behind the Scenes of Disney. The type of questions that came to my mind was: "what are they really showing to children?" "how does this affect them?" "does this relate to current generations of why young children and teenagers are becoming more promiscuous?"

List of useful sources:

CSULA library: "The Sexualization of Childhood" by Sharna Olfman (A Royal Juggernaut: The Disney Princesses and Other Commercialized Threats to Creative Play and the Path to Self-Realization for Young Girls by Susan Limm)


CSULA database (journal articles) *tip: use RefWorks to make articles easily transferable and organized in a folder*
Title
How and When Advertising Can Influence Memory for Consumer Experience
Source
Journal of Advertising2004, 33, 4, pp. 7-25, M.E. Sharpe, Inc 
Title
Subliminal Seduction: An Essay on the Rhetoric of the Unconscious
Source
Rhetoric Review1986, 4, 2, pp. 160-171, Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
 Title
Let's Rewind the Tape to See How The `Aladdin' Sex Rumor Began Disney Rumors Reveal a Cast Of Characters
Source
Title
Subliminal Advertising: What You See Is What You Get
Source
The Journal of Marketing1982, 46, 2, pp. 38-47, American Marketing AssociationF
Authors
Title
Colour, Lines and Nudes: Teaching Disney's Animators
Source
Film History1999, 11, 1, Film Technology, pp. 77-84, Indiana University Press

Authors
Title
Coming Home to Our Sexual Selves
Source
The Journal of Sex Research1999, 36, 4, pp. 413-414, Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
Title
Disney and its conservative critics
Source
Journal of Popular Film & Television1996, 24, 2, 82, Taylor & Francis Ltd

Authors
Title
Things Walt Disney Never Told Us
Source
The Journal of American Folklore1975, 88, 347, Women and Folklore, pp. 42-50, American Folklore Society 

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