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“ ____ Ever After” by Shefali Murti

For my WP2, I rewatched and media-analyzed Disney Princess movies to see how their key controversial themes impacted my view on life as a child. I explore my intellectual journey with these ideas and how my home life and all-girls education have nurtured or revoked them.

Happily Ever After…

Happily Ever After…

The original Disney princess movies constituted a huge part of my childhood. Snow White, Cinderella, Ariel, Belle…I would constantly be…
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Shefali Murti
Oct 7, 2020
Prettily Ever After

Prettily Ever After

Though its masked to younger viewers, the Disney princess movies are notorious for expressing patriarchal societies where women should be…
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Shefali Murti
Oct 7, 2020
Differently Ever After

Differently Ever After

It might come as a shock, but this is the first time I’ve ever fully seen Disney’s animation of Aladdin, due to the fact that I have had a…
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Shefali Murti
Oct 5, 2020
Domestically Ever After

Domestically Ever After

My main takeaways of Snow White is that it perpetuates the gender norm of women being domestic (for a man). The visual parallels I noticed…
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Shefali Murti
Oct 5, 2020
Passively Ever After

Passively Ever After

Cinderella was the biggest princess of my childhood — so much so that when my mom was pregnant I said she should name my sister after her…
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Shefali Murti
Oct 5, 2020
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