Diversity In Disney Movies

Report on Search Procedures From when I was a little girl I have always enjoyed watching Disney films, especially Disney princess films. I love watching action and adventure movies, but i've always had enjoyed a good Disney movie. The older I got the more I was exposed to people's opinions, good and bad, about Disney's films. Society began to criticize the films for being white washed and sexist. I never once thought that to be true of a Disney movie, but after reading articles and looking at a lot of the films I began to see where journalists and critics could get their ideals. I wanted to look further into this myself and so I began to research. I started my research on the Lovejoy Library’s website. I started by using the find feature to search for “diversity in Disney”. Unfortunately very few results came up. Most of the results that did show up had very little to do with my topic. I was however able to find one eBook, Diversity in Disney Films. This book was exactly what I was looking for, but with no luck finding any other book sources I decided to edit my topic. I narrowed my topic down to just sexism and anti feminist ideals in Disney princess movies. With my new topic I went back to the Lovejoy Library’s website. My new topic gave me more results than I needed. I looked used the filter options to narrow down the results down …show more content…
I started by once again using the Lovejoy Library’s find feature, but came up with nothing. With that I headed towards Google. Knowing I would likely have the hardest time finding a journal article I started by searching for scholarly journal articles about Disney princesses. I found three journal articles that were exactly what I needed. ISOR Journal of Humanities And Social Science, URJHS, and A Journal of Transdisciplinary Writing and Research from Claremont Graduate University all gave different, but equally important viewpoints and perspectives on this