Document Type
Panel Presentation
Start Date
21-4-2017 9:15 AM
End Date
21-4-2017 10:30 AM
Keywords
Feminism, post colonialism, film
Biography
Lydia A. Cyrus is an English major at Marshall University where she serves as the president of the English honor society Sigma Tau Delta. She specializes in creative non-fiction and works mainly for feminist and post colonial theory as well.
Major
English
Advisor for this project
Dr. Walter Squire
Abstract
This paper seeks to unpack the representation of women and Native Americans in the 1995 Disney film Pocahontas and how Disney took a historical event and blended the elements of a true story and the elements of typical Disney films to create a fictional story of Pocahontas and John Smith. The paper seeks to critically view the ideas of feminism in the film and how the Powhatan tribe was portrayed in the film as well and how both subjects make the Disney film dangerous for viewers as it distorts history.
Fabricated History and False Feminism: How Disney Reimagined and Reshaped the Story of Pocahontas
This paper seeks to unpack the representation of women and Native Americans in the 1995 Disney film Pocahontas and how Disney took a historical event and blended the elements of a true story and the elements of typical Disney films to create a fictional story of Pocahontas and John Smith. The paper seeks to critically view the ideas of feminism in the film and how the Powhatan tribe was portrayed in the film as well and how both subjects make the Disney film dangerous for viewers as it distorts history.
