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A Study on the Masculinity of Male Characters Represented in the Disney Feature Animation Frozen

디즈니 장편 애니메이션 <겨울왕국>에 나타나는 남성 캐릭터의 남성성 연구

  • Oh, Dong-Il (Department of History and Cultural Contents, Sun-Moon University)
  • 오동일 (선문대학교 역사문화콘텐츠학과)
  • Received : 2017.09.07
  • Accepted : 2017.11.25
  • Published : 2017.11.30
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Abstract

The Disney Studios have been aiming at the animation storytelling of the signification system that the contemporary audience can universally accept. And it can be said that such storytelling is aesthetic expression based on the contemporary mainstream dominant mythology. Seen from this perspective, the changes of the masculinity of male characters that are represented in the Disney feature animation Frozen are not just a simple aesthetic phenomenon but a strategy of animation storytelling that reflects the contemporary cultural and social trend. The gender identity of the male characters of Frozen is completely freed from the existing stereotypes about Disney feature animations, and it positively presents the changes of the gender roles that reflect the changes in social value and the needs of the times.

디즈니 스튜디오는 동시대 관객이 보편적으로 수용할 수 있는 의미체계의 애니메이션 스토리텔링을 지향해왔다. 그리고 그와 같은 애니메이션 스토리텔링은 동시대의 주류적인 지배적 신화를 근간으로 하는 미학적 표현이라고 할 수 있다. 이러한 관점에서 볼 때, 디즈니 장편 애니메이션 <겨울왕국>에 나타나는 남성 캐릭터의 남성성 변화는 단순한 미학적 현상이 아니라, 동시대의 문화사회적 흐름을 반영한 애니메이션 스토리텔링의 전략이라고 볼 수 있다. <겨울왕국>에 등장하는 남성 캐릭터들의 젠더 정체성은 기존 디즈니 장편 애니메이션에 대한 고정관념에서 완전하게 벗어나 있으며, 그것은 사회적 가치관의 흐름과 시대적 요구를 반영한 성 역할의 변화를 적극적으로 제시한 것이다.

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