This week I have been reading a lot of literature on the relationship between ‘culture’ and ‘animation’.




Reference:
Lacroix, C., 2004. Images of animated others: The orientalization of Disney’s cartoon heroines from The Little Mermaid to The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Popular Communication, 2(4), pp.213-229.
van Rooij, M., 2019. Carefully constructed yet curiously real: How major American animation studios generate empathy through a shared style of character design. Animation, 14(3), pp.191-206.
Robinson, T., Callister, M., Magoffin, D. and Moore, J., 2007. The portrayal of older characters in Disney animated films. Journal of aging studies, 21(3), pp.203-213.