Cooking like a Rat: Sensation and Politics in Disney-Pixar's<i>Ratatouille</i>

Herhuth, Eric

doi:10.1080/10509208.2012.679507

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“…By making the two characters who seems impossible to become a cook to become successful in cooking echoing a line in the film "Everyone can cook", it also implies a value that everyone can achieve their dream with hardworking and courage. [3]. Another aspect of American culture, individualistic heroism is also illustrates in Disney-Pixar movies, there are plots that the main character breaks the taboo and save one's community or friends thorough adventure.…”

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“…The similar plot happens in Sleeping Beauty. In 1937, when the Snow White and the Seven Dwarf produced, people tend to believe woman should stay at home doing chores while man work outside [3]. The movie catered this kind of mindset by showing scene that Snow White singing and doing chores for the dwarf while the dwarf working in mines.…”

Section: The Influence Of Society Consensusmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The External Factors That Influence the Image of Disney Movies Characters

Huang¹

2022

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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Disney is a successful movie producer which produce many popular series. There are researches that discuss how the concept change affects the characters designed by Disney, for example how the change of gender role change Disney princess characteristic. However, these papers tend to focus on limited aspect, only on social consensus or culture background of specific movies. In this paper, the author discusses several external factors culture, social consensus, audience feedback illustrates in multiple Disney movie. The design of movie characters does not only serve the plot, especially when movie becomes a mean of cultural export. Looking back the example of Disney movie provide an aspect for producer to view how to converge culture and another external factor in the movie and made the movie being accept by the majority.

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Section: The Influence Of Culturementioning

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Section: The Influence Of Society Consensusmentioning

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The External Factors That Influence the Image of Disney Movies Characters

Huang¹

2022

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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“…A few, if any, have been successful as "the two cannot be kept separate" (Tegel, 2006, p. 185). Beyond Africa, the human race has deployed figurative arts to express abhorrence to inordinate ambitions, criminality, bad rule, larceny, illegal ascendancy to power, political upheavals, lousy leadership, and followership, and illegitimacy, among other social vices (Cheref, 2017;Herhuth, 2014;Mayne, 1976). Cheref (2017, p. 395) glowingly reported an Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo's La Battaile l'Algier as "quite relevant to Middle Eastern politics and world peace" and so downright and carefully produced that the film "literally" became the global counterinsurgent training tools against global "political and religious insurgency".…”

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Narrative of governance crisis in Nigeria: Allegory of resource curse and “Emergence” in Tunde Kelani’s Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwò

Olaiya

2020

Cogent Social Sciences

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From the resource curse perspective, this article investigated how Tunde Kelani's twin-movies, Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwò, explored the vulnerability of leaders in natural-resource dependent state to corrupt practices, leading ultimately to governance crisis. Textual and mythical representations in the movies are critically analysed to explain the significance of tackling governance crises during the leadership-making process. Significantly, the article investigated the historical revisionism contained in the films as a predictive imagination of how the future (political-economy) will remain bleak in the face of the continued maladministration of the resources in Nigeria. Focusing on the socio-economic and political malaise that has continued to play out since the discovery of crude oil at Oloibiri community in Nigeria by mid-1950s, the article sought to unravel what Tunde Kelani's allegorical postulations in Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwò reveal about leadership experiences of states depending solely on natural resources income. It explained how the absence of shared goal and dearth of mass mobilization strategies, which were successfully deployed in the films for denouncing despotism and yokes of elitism, are lacking in the present-day Nigeria. The insulations against irresponsible public administration, which the leadership-making process in Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwò rigidly built into the leadership-making process in Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwo, arguably, showcase the consequences of unscrupulous choices emanating from gamed electoral system inherent in the modern liberal democracies. In doing so, the study showed how the conjoined films are a unique art that figuratively lends itself to explanations of leadership challenges arising from natural resource endowments. Taiwo A. Olaiya ABOUT THE AUTHOR Taiwo A. Olaiya (Esq.) is multidisciplinary. He successfully bagged degrees in Demography & Social Statistics, Laws, and Public Administration from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria where he is currently a senior faculty member affiliated to the Department of Public Administration. His specialisation includes African studies, comparative political governance, policy analysis, financial management, and research methods. PUBLIC INTEREST STATEMENTFocusing on the socio-economic and political discontent that has continued to play out since the discovery of crude oil in Nigeria by mid-1950s, the article explores the allegorical postulations in Tunde Kelani's Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwò to explain the leadership experiences of states depending solely on natural resources income.

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Pixar in Classrooms

Jerin

2023

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Cooking like a Rat: Sensation and Politics in Disney-Pixar'sRatatouille

Cited by 5 publications

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The External Factors That Influence the Image of Disney Movies Characters

The External Factors That Influence the Image of Disney Movies Characters

Narrative of governance crisis in Nigeria: Allegory of resource curse and “Emergence” in Tunde Kelani’s Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwò

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