Term 3, Lesson 17

Media Task: 

• evaluate women or men in disney
• big audience
• films are iconic but questions rise on how they stereotype and how that translates to the audience
•  content and contextual analysis 
• 4-6 minutes
• analyse the role that the film play in creating and reinforcing gender stereotypes
• women - appearance, cooking, cleaning, good, bad, personality, actions 
• men
• attributes (personality, actions, appearance)
• roles (disney films don't challenge the stereotypical roles)

Peter Pan Analysis:

Wendy:

• Wendy believed and was the 'supreme authority' of peter pan
• beautiful
• very talkative and annoying when first meeting peter
• Peter say "Girls talk to much", "Get on with it girl"
• Peter saves Wendy when she is being shot down
• Peter laughed at Tinkerbelle calling Wendy a big ugly girl
• when they are flying to neverland Wendy checks her appearance in the reflection in the river
• Wendy is the kind one and tells Peter not to banish Tinkerbelle for too long even though tink is horrible to her
• mermaids lie around and admire themselves, they love peter and admire him, jealous of wendy, pull her in the water - peter just laughs 
• Peter leaves without Wendy after saving Tigerlilly
• peter shushes wendy when she's standing up for herself
• peter shows off to Wendy
• Hook says, "A jealous female can be tricked into anything"

Peter:

• peter pan chose a house of people who believed in him
• unattractive
• looks dirty 
• not presentable
• only wanted to here stories about him
• laughed at tinker belle calling Wendy a big ugly girl
• He doesn't want Wendy to grow up for himself not for Wendy
• saves Wendy when she is being shot down
• can hate Tinkerbelle after one incident 
• shushes Wendy when she's standing up for herself
• shows off to Wendy
• calls hook names
• leaves without wendy after saving tigerlilly
• smokes from a pipe on screen

Others:

• male narrator
• mrs darling believed he was the spirit of youth
• mr darling was a 'practical man'
• bothers believed peter pan was real person and was the hero of all their stories
• Mary Darling - elegant and beautiful
• John Darling - chubby and arrogant
• when Tinkerbelle is admiring herself in the mirror she thinks her hips are two wide, measuring them with her hands 
• Lost boys - lazy, sleeping, dirty, stupid, will believe anything someone they know says
• John is racist in calling the indians savages, cunning and unintelligent 
• john smokes but makes him ill and wendy doesn't let her or Michael smoke