Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Responce to "Children's Culture and Disney's Animated Films"
As Emily said, on a liking-disliking basis, I did not like this article. I think that all Giroux did was attack Disney. He did not take the time to explore any positives that could result from watching Disney movies, and I am sure that Disney is not all negative as Giroux makes it out to be. I grew up watching Disney, so my opinion is probably biased, but I went into the article with an open mind thinking maybe several good points would be made. Giroux did have several good ideas, but I think the way he presented them, just attacking Disney, made me lose interest in his argument and made me not what to believe what he was saying. Yes, there may be prejudice in some of the Disney movies, but children do not consciously pick up on that. Also, works of art, whether they are music, literature, or media, reflect ideas present in the time period they were made in. Disney is not trying to brain wash children so they become racist, it is just coming up with plots that will capture the audience’s attention and inspire creativity and imagination in them.
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I felt the exact same way while reading this article. Giroux makes very one sided arguments and by using that tactic I think he has the tendency to lose his readers attention. At least I know he lost mine. His sentence structure and word usage just is not compelling enough to make me want to continue. For example one sentence "Disney has aggressively prosecuted violations of its copyrights and has a reputation for bullying authors..." The pathos used in this sentence and word structure is much like the rest of his article which is very negative and critical towards Walt Disney.
ReplyDeleteAs Katie said, reading this article I lost interest in it because of the fact that none of the positive aspects of Disney were given. Along with attacking Disney the author used a very critical tone and seems to be very biased. When he describes all of the characters throughout the article he uses descriptions that have negative connotations, as when he compares Ariel to an anorexic barbie doll, obviously when you describe a character like that you are going to evoke a negative response. If the author would have attacked less and gave valid reason without negative connotations attached I feel like more people would have agreed with some of his ideas and or liked the article.
ReplyDeleteI definitely believe that Giroux's aggressive tone made readers very defensive from the start. I also like how you admitted to the bias that the majority of us share having grown up with Disney. Many of these arguments were exaggerated and readers definitely noticed.
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