Slides
The bill that provided benefits for returning WW2 veterans.
What is the GI bill?
The movie where the Black main characters spend more time as frogs than as people.
What is Princess and the Frog?
The year that Disneyland was first open to the public.
When is 1955?
How has Disney impacted your day-to-day life?
Ex:
- entertains younger siblings
How the popularity of public transport changed post WW2.
What is a rapid decline?
The movie that glorifies the relationship between slave and slave owners.
What is Song of the South?
The ride where people have spread their ashes.
What is the Haunted Mansion?
How did the idea of a nuclear family change since WW2?
- Right after WW2, the typical family was a mother, a father and two kids.
- Now there are more single parent families, queer parents, platonic co-parenting etc...
The bill that caused Disney to stop making political donations.
What is the Don't Say Gay bill?
The movie that glorifies the mistreatment of indigenous communities.
What is Pocahontas?
The district that Disney is in.
What is Reedy Creek Improvement District?
What are some Disney movies/scenes that show positive representation of more uncommon demographics.
Ex:
- the caring single dad in Finding Nemo
- generational trauma in Turning Red
- Elsa in Frozen being an independent woman
The bill that increases minimum wage for employees working in hospitality in Anaheim, CA.
What is Measure L?
What is Dumbo?
The number of lobbyists Disneyworld has.
What is 38?
Think of a Disney movie or character that you enjoyed as a child that may have had adverse effects on societal advancements.
Ex:
- snow white
- sleeping beauty
The councilmember in Anaheim that wanted to stop incentives for Disney and wanted to invest more in Anaheim's children instead of the tourists.
The movie that shows native characters, Tiger Lily and her fellow “Picaninnies”, as caricatures.
What is Peter Pan?
The amount that Disney brings in annual impact.
How are shifts in generational values reflected in the changes in Disney/Disneyland?
- gender neutral greetings
- more racially diverse content
- exploring gender expression in media