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Mulan: the beginning of Disney’s journey in the reconstruction of gender roles
Kunz, Sahra; Smirnova, Ekaterina; Rocha, Margarida Maria LaranjeiraWe will focus on the animated Disney movie Mulan (1998) and what it is that makes its female protagonist stand out from the Disney Princess group. We will begin by contextualizing how and why, in the 1990’s, Disney female characters shifted from damsels-in-distress to braver and more independent heroes. We will also mention why the character Mulan, who has no relation with royalty, is merchandized and seen as a...
How streaming platforms can bring 2D animation back
Kunz, Sahra; Smirnova, Ekaterina; Henriques, Leonor FariaIn this paper, we analyse how streaming platforms, especially Netflix, have been changing the cinema industry and what role they can play in the revival of 2D animation. Firstly, we describe a brief history of 2D animation and link it to the proliferation of the streaming platforms that have been actively changing the media landscape. After this, we explain how these platforms work and how they might benefit th...
The (un)necessary suspicious spectator
Smirnova, Ekaterina
The discreet charm of surrealism in Eastern European animation : when repressio...
Smirnova, EkaterinaThe focus of this dissertation is Surrealism in animation films created during the Soviet period of 1956 – 1989 in Russia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. These thirty-three years of the Soviet regime were characterized by the domination of censorship, a persecution of "formalism" and control over artistic expression. However, in these dark conditions the animation industry flourished and striking political films a...