The Princess And The Frog Summary

To study communications in media is a daunting task made further daunting when topics such as the cultivation theory are associated with our beloved Disney movies. An article titled Images of Animated Others: The Orientalization of Disney’s Heroines from The Little Mermaid to The Hunchback of Notre Dame By Celeste Lacroix argues consumerism and orientalization is rife throughout Disney princess movies. I disagree, and through my analysis of the Disney movie The Princess and the Frog I will prove that not all Disney princess movies are racially biased and portray woman as helpless creatures who need a man’s guidance.
In Lacroix’s article she uses Disney movies such as Beauty and The Beast, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Pocahontas, and The Hunchback
Lacroix also list ways we as consumers make these stories less of a fantasy you can observe and more of one you create. With almost every Disney movie having a boat load of merchandise and having consumers think
Tiana was not discriminated against in any fashion, Lacroix mentions that a Disney character of another ethnicity other than white must clash or go against other white characters “whiteness” and by doing that it shows how strong and independent their culture is and that’s just not the case here. Tiana’s ethnicity has nothing to do with it none of the characters whiteness affects her at all not even the fact that Mr. Labouff was rich and Tiana was poor had no hindrance on her goal. The fact that she was, and I won’t say poor but not as well off as Mr. Labouff and his family had no correlation, she still would have saved up the money and gotten her restaurant and been fine. With the additional fact of her male counterpart not being white either throughout the film there is no white clashing no going against the grain she is just like everyone else. Now a days every Disney movie has a merchandise boom before the release of the film and The Princess and the Frog is no exception but Lacroix condemns this act saying it dictates our discourses of self and discourses regarding others but I don’t see it that way I see the advertisements and merchandise as a deeper emersion in the film itself. It lets you get to know the characters and become more invested in their lives and because you are so invested you morn their losses and you celebrate their victories you feel what they feel and I find that to be