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A Critique Upon Animated Movie Beauty and the Beast With Perspectives to Gender Discrimination
Anum Shabbir, Muhammad Arfan Lodhi, Quratulain Arshad
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DOI:10.17265/2161-623X/2023.05.007
NCBA&E University, Bahawalpur, Pakistan; Higher Education Department (Collegiate Wing), Punjab, Pakistan
This study gives an essential analysis of Disney animated movie and degree production of beauty and the beast, mainly of the heroine, Belle, inside a greater massive and short historiography of the fairy tale. Its miles claimed that Disney’s model relocates the heroic cognizance from Belle (beauty) to beast, at the same time as additionally narrating a retort to feminism that entails compressing feminist ideology into conventions of popular eroticism. This current and dynamic research investigates about the animated movie’s gender equality and gender stereotype with reference to Belle, a female protagonist of movie. Movie was examined by feminist elements as it dealt with gender equality and role of female in movie. As an outcome, researcher can determine that this animated film portrays feminist elements by portraying the character of Bella in movie. The author embraced the explorative and analytical framework based on qualitative research approach by the application of feminist theory for the analysis of western animated movie Beauty and the Beast. The findings of study have shown the portrayal of heroine (Belle) as a symbol of feminism shown as a sensible girl who demands situation conventional gender roles but the film also reinforces gender stereotypes via man or woman. It is important to recognize that movie reinforces stereotypes and work to be done to create feminism. By sum up we come to know that the movie is the representation of female ability, individualism, liberal feminism, and gender stereotypes, which promotes equality and feminism through western kids’ literature.
gender stereotypes, Beauty and the Beast, children literature, feminist analysis
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