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A Background on Tangled and Gender-Neutral Princess Marketing

I LOVE Tangled. This is no secret to anyone who wants to talk Disney with me, or hangs out with me on Facebook. I love it. I love it, I love it, I love it. I think Disney has taken the best bits about every single Disney Princess film, mushed them all together, learned fromContinue reading “A Background on Tangled and Gender-Neutral Princess Marketing”

Disney’s Working Class Princess: The Princess And The Frog

I’d never watched The Princess and the Frog before I did so for this weekly Disney segment. I wish I hadn’t left it so long. It was released in 2009, so well after the established 8 Disney Princess franchise had been set up (around 2000-2001). Yet Tiana was easily added to the Princess line upContinue reading “Disney’s Working Class Princess: The Princess And The Frog”

Mulan: Disney’s First Warrior Princess

I have to admit: although I’m not a huge fan of Disney’s thirty-sixth animated feature film, I have an incredibly soft spot for the eighth Disney Princess Mulan. My Honours thesis was on two cross-dressing Shakespeare plays, where young women dress up as boys for various reasons – one to protect her virginity, and theContinue reading “Mulan: Disney’s First Warrior Princess”

Pocahontas: the Historical (Fictionalised) Princess

What can I say about Disney’s 33rd animated feature, the seventh Disney Princess film, and Disney’s first princess based on a historical figure rather than a fairy tale? I was about eight years old when I first saw this film. I liked it – it had awesome music and a heroine that although I couldn’tContinue reading “Pocahontas: the Historical (Fictionalised) Princess”

Why Investors Are Scared To Invest In New Media

The video game industry, the film industry, and the book industry. What do these three entertainment giants have in common? They are really fuckin scared. And the industry is expensive to produce something new. I’m not even going to go into indie publishing and film-making and the cheap $1 app games. I won’t talk aboutContinue reading “Why Investors Are Scared To Invest In New Media”