In this paper, I report the results of a content analysis of six popular and influential American television situation comedies depicting a single, working woman. The literature shows that there are specific gender norms that are reflected in the way individuals consume, choose, and think about food (Counihan, 1992 Oakes and Slotterbeck, 2005).
Committee: Caroline Clark (Advisor) Michelle Abate (Committee Member) Merrill Kaplan (Committee Member) Subjects: Early Childhood Education Film Studies Gender Literacy Literature Mass Media Motion Pictures Multicultural Education Scandinavian StudiesīA, Kent State University, 2020, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of SociologyĮxposure to popular culture is an important dimension of gender role socialization. “Buying the blueprints” also offers suggestions for critical, creative engagement with the Frozen films, exploring play-based restorying (Wohlwend, 2009)(Thomas & Stornaiuolo, 2016) as a potential site for critical media literacy practice. Through these themes, I illuminate the Disney brand's reliance on audiences' emotional engagement with narratives to subdue critique and invite material investment in physical and digital merchandise. Discussions of indigeneity, national/cultural identity, and gender as they are represented in Frozen are situated within the Disney Princess film tradition and examined as social blueprints (Dorfman, 1983) that contribute to audience's constructed schemas. “Buying the blueprints: Investing emotionally and materially in the icy ideologies of Disney's Frozen” uses a cultural studies framework to examine qualitative data collected from interviews with Norwegian children and families, observations of public engagement with the Frozen films both in Norway and at EPCOT's Norway pavilion, and narrative analysis of the Frozen films. Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2020, EDU Teaching and Learning