snow white laura mulvey disney wiki

Wednesday 2nd July 2014

http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Snow_White_(character)

Physical Appearance

Lips red as the rose. Hair black as ebony. Skin white as snow.
Magic Mirror to the Evil Queen

Snow White is a beautiful 14-year old girl, often described as the "fairest in the land." The phrase "lips red as a rose, hair black as ebony, and skin white as snow", describes her most notable features, being her rosy red lips and rosy cheeks, and both her hair and skin color. She is sweet, but also shy. Being fairly short in height, Snow White also has a rather slender, flat-chested figure and dainty little feet.
Her simple signature court dress consists of an indigo bodice with a high white collar; her short puffy sleeves are a lighter blue color than her bodice and the red cloth poking through exemplify the "slashing" design, which was very fashionable in Tudor times. It involved cutting the cloth on the outside of the outfit and pulling through another layer of cloth from underneath.
Snow White's long, shapeless skirt flows down just past her ankles and has been depicted as either bright yellow (as often shown in marketing), or light yellow (as it's shown in the film). She has a white petticoat underneath and tan pumps with yellow bows on them. Snow White's short black hair is styled in a bob and parted in the middle. She wears a red headband with a bow.

Abilities

  • Expert Cook: Thanks to her work as a scullery servant in her stepmother's castle, Snow White has knowledge of cooking, which she showcased in the film. She made soup for the dwarves, and after Happy smelled it, he commented that it smelled good and attempted to try it. Then in the deleted scene of "Music In Your Soup", the dwarves (including Grumpy) appeared to enjoy the soup as they ate it. Snow White made a gooseberry pie for Grumpy. She can prepare other dishes such as apple dumplings and plum pudding. The details of Snow White's ability weren't focused on, but it appears she is good at it.
  • Practical skills: Snow White is able to lead the animals to help with the cleaning of the dwarfs cottage. She also makes sure that the dwarfs don't eat until they're clean.


In visual Pleasure and Narrative cinema Laura Mulvey states that
" In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded from strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness".
From Disneys wiki Snow White is described as, 
Snow White is a beautiful 14-year old girl, often described as the "fairest in the land." The phrase "lips red as a rose, hair black as ebony, and skin white as snow"

She is described as 'Fairest in the land', she is a 14 year old girl and from this it basically says that she is the most desired by the male characters, they describe her as basically perfect this confirms Laura Mulvey's theory in that she has a 'strong visual and erotic impact' , "to-be-looked-at-ness" she has been designed to be the perfect woman in the film, as we only have a few other female characters to compare her against, the witch/queen whos is described as evil. 

From my primary information, i showed  picture of Snow White and asked them to describe her in three words form this i got, womanly, domestic, traditional, pretty, docile (easily managed and handled)  and typical woman these were all male opinions.  This again supports the male gaze theory as she is seen as pretty the male audience see her as pretty, basically the perfect woman, domestic and  traditional a stay at home woman its  a old basic description. 


Even in Brave and Frozen the female characters may look and act different but they still have this basic slim figure and described as pretty, again supporting laura mulvey's theory of "to-be-looked-at-ness" they are there to be looked at by the audience both male and female. men seeing them as a perfect definition and woman seeing them as something to strive to be like. 

From disneys wiki snow whites abilities as stated,
"Expert Cook: Thanks to her work as a scullery servant in her stepmother's castle, Snow White has knowledge of cooking, which she showcased in the film."

 From my primary information people describe her as domesticated, laura mulvey states that woman are there to serve men. Snow white is a domestic character lives in the house and sevres the seven dwarfs.




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