Disney Options for Research
LESSON FOUR: SURVEYING A VARIETY OF DISNEY-RELATED SOURCES
By the end of class, you will be able to draw conclusions about how Disney texts have become so pervasive in our U.S. culture.
Let's Get Started! Please share the Disney video clips you located in groups of 2-3. Also, please don't repeat the same video; find another group who do not have your same video.
Options Assignments
Below, you'll see several different sources that offer new and different ways to learn about Disney and its influences on U.S. culture. Please choose 3 (CP) and 4 (H) options and write 2-3 sentences about what you learned/ the essential ideas that emerge from each source.
Option One: Themes and Theoretical Analyses
How shall we investigate the effect of Disney on contemporary children? Let's survey a Pinterest!
Option Two: Walt Disney: The Man, The Imagination
Take a tour of the Walk Disney Museum in San Francisco, California
Option Three: Sample Method to Deconstruct Disney: Social and Cultural Construct Identification
Click here to see the lesson and the accompanying template.
Option Four: Toys and Games Galore
Visit the Disney site for videos, games, and film.
Option Five: List of Disney Assets
How many companies to you think the Disney Corporation owns? Look here!
Option Six: Website for the Walt Disney Company
Click here to see how the Walt Disney company represents itself to the public --- including its shareholders.
Option Seven: Projected Magic in Disney Theme Parks
Watch this video to see the illusion and the reality behind it.
Option Eight: Interested in deconstructing the Disney Princess motif?
Which Disney princess are you? "Tangled and other Disney 'Role Models' for Children" "An Essay: This Time, It's Personal" A Student Presentation
Option Nine: General Resources
"Theme Parks, Films, and Media: California State University" Lesson plan about Good and Evil in Snow White/
Option Ten: The 10 Biggest Disney Controversies blog (look at the comments section, too: people really don't want their Pleasure Principle disrupted by taking critical distance from Disney texts!)or The 10 Biggest Disney Controversies YouTube.
Option Eleven: Theatrical Animations
If you're interested specifically in Disney animations, click here for a list.
