"When I was a boy, my father told me to bang my head against a rock, and I did it. I thought it was crazy, but I didn’t question him. And you know what happened? That rock split in two. It taught me what a Viking could do, Gobber. He could crush mountains, level forests, … Continue reading Hegemonic masculinity and the subversion of gender stereotypes: A linguistic analysis of DreamWorks’ ‘How to Train Your Dragon’
Tag: constructions of masculinity
Assa et al. (2022) Being a man: Representation of liberating masculinity in animation film
Conducts a critical analysis of the depiction of liberating masculinity in DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon. Qualitative data covering both the macro and micro structure of the text. Semantics and syntax are analysed as well as the paper taking a more stylistic approach towards the end. Although good for a multimodal overview of the … Continue reading Assa et al. (2022) Being a man: Representation of liberating masculinity in animation film
Blush (2021) Bending the Elementary: Queering Gender and Sexuality in Avatar: The Last Airbender and Beyond
Looks at the role of television in constructing gender for children and reinforcing traditional gender roles, especially Judith Butler’s “heterosexual matrix”, with lexical analysis of how characters do and don’t escape it. Investigates the ways in which Avatar: the Last Airbender (2005-2008) either upholds or subverts the dichotomies of gender and sexuality, by analyzing the … Continue reading Blush (2021) Bending the Elementary: Queering Gender and Sexuality in Avatar: The Last Airbender and Beyond
Davis (2014) Handsome heroes and vile villains
Covers the depictions of human male protagonists and antagonists in Disney’s animated feature films from 1937 to 2012. A fairly large number of films are each examined in detail, with three chapters on the protagonists (covering heroes in childhood or adolescence, non-aristocratic adults, and royals) and one on the villains. This book will be useful … Continue reading Davis (2014) Handsome heroes and vile villains
Garibashvili and Lazviashvili (2021) Verbal and nonverbal discourse of male characters in animated movies
Analyses discourse (verbal and nonverbal) of male mice characters in two films: American – “The Great Mouse Detective” (1986) and Georgian – “Tsuna and Tsrutsuna” (1955). Looks at nonverbal displays of masculinity through character design as well as textual analysis of the character’s speech and how they portray masculine personality traits, both positive and negative. … Continue reading Garibashvili and Lazviashvili (2021) Verbal and nonverbal discourse of male characters in animated movies
Hiramoto (2013) Hey, you’re a girl?
An exploration of the ways in which a Japanese anime, Cowboy Bebop, constructs hegemonic heterosexuality and masculinity through certain linguistic features and how these portrayals change between the original Japanese version and the English dubbed translation. Mostly quantitative data, however, some use of qualitative data in the discussion section including script excerpts and some linguistic … Continue reading Hiramoto (2013) Hey, you’re a girl?
Leaper, Breed, Hoffman & Perlman (2002) Variations in the gender-stereotyped content of children’s television cartoons across genres
Examines the gender-stereotyped content of children’s TV network cartoons across 4 genres: traditional adventure, nontraditional adventure, educational/family, and comedy. Notes the over-representation of male characters, linking TV’s role in shaping children’s behaviour to likelihoods of gender stereotyping. Studies the frequencies of 9 labelled emotions triggered the behaviour and language across the 4 genres and Additionally … Continue reading Leaper, Breed, Hoffman & Perlman (2002) Variations in the gender-stereotyped content of children’s television cartoons across genres
McKee (2020) Make(over)
Explores concepts surrounding gender presentation, particularly a characters’ transformation towards hegemonic masculinity, in three animated Disney films. Discusses which masculine roles and bodies are considered ‘ideal’ in Disney’s animation. Mostly qualitative approach using rhetorical criticism. Little detailed linguistic analysis but salient scenes from films are discussed critically in terms of visual, aural and kinesic features … Continue reading McKee (2020) Make(over)