Sleeping beauty(1959) vs Maleficent(2014)

Sleeping Beauty VS Maleficent

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. (2014). Maleficent.

Walt Disney Productions. (1959). Sleeping beauty.

These are the 2 movies I am comparing.

Social History

Getchell, M. (n.d.). Mrs. America: Women's Roles in the 1950s. Retrieved October 5, 2019, from https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-mrs-america-womens-roles-1950s/.

Brodsky, R. (2015, March 31). Feminism in 2014: More Than a Trend. Retrieved October 5, 2019, from https://www.spin.com/2014/12/feminism-music-trend-2014-beyonce/.

These will be able help me compare what it was like for women in the 1950’s vs 2014. More specifically the roles they have in society and what is allowed of women in these times.

Genres

Wikipedia contributors. (2019, October 3). Sleeping Beauty (1959 film). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:32, October 5, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?

title=Sleeping_Beauty_(1959_film)&oldid=919433288

Wikipedia contributors. (2019, September 30). Maleficent (film). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:33, October 5, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maleficent_(film)&oldid=918740821

Maleficent. (2014, May 28). Retrieved October 5, 2019, from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587310/?ref_=nv_sr_2?ref_.

Sleeping Beauty. (1959, July 9). Retrieved October 5, 2019, from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053285/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2.

All four of these help me see what genre I am looking at and a synopsis of both the movies and topic they each touch on in the films.

Wikipedia contributors. (2019, September 23). Romantic fantasy. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:38, October 5, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Romantic_fantasy&oldid=917467372

These will specially help me look at the romantic fantasy genre.

Lagamba, Jonette Lauren, "Shaping Identity: Male and Female Interactions in Cinema" (2012). Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4116

This paper will help me look at the interactions between gender roles in movies overtime. This I feel could go for both social history and genre.

D., H. (2014, February 12). Retrieved from https://medium.com/@hairyanto/representations-of-females-and-femininity-in-disney-princess-films-bfdc58c7d217

Barber, M. K. (2015). Retrieved from http://scholars.indstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10484/12132/Barber_McKenzie_2015_HT.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

These papers will help me look at the gender roles and feminism in Disney movies overtime.