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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
A Disney film that includes personifying or anthropomorphizing objects as a plot device to influence an audience's attention and concern. Snow White includes a talking mirror. -
Fantasia (1940)
A Disney film that includes personifying or anthropomorphizing objects as a plot device to influence an audience's attention and concern. Fantasia includes dancing brooms. -
Cinderella (1950)
A Disney film that includes personifying or anthropomorphizing objects as a plot device to influence an audience's attention and concern. Cinderella includes transforming animals to men and a pumpkin into a carriage. -
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The General '80s and its Films
The '80s where a hyper-masculine body is a value. The men of the '80s were hard-driving and violent. These men were in the center of many scenes featuring destruction and overcoming their enemies through brute force. -
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Ronald Reagan's presidency
President Reagan's agenda for the 1980s focuses on conservative family and moral values. -
The Terminator (1984)
The first Terminator film is about escaping, then eventually defeating a robotic villain from the future set out to kill one specific person. -
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Lethal Weapon (1987) has a plot that revolves around overpowering the main antagonist through forceful means, while also having lives at stake. Very action oriented, like general '80s films. -
RoboCop (1987)
RoboCop is the first RoboCop film that mainly focuses on a masculine ideal of fighting crime and upholding justice. -
Dividing Republican Values
The republican ticket for 1988 divided the elements of republican values at the same time the economy declines and the national debt increases. The need for a military slowly decline.
Hard-edged foreign policies shift towards more domestic values during Reagan's presidency. -
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George H. W. Bush's Presidency
Campaigned on his prior higher positions in the government as opposed to Dan Quayle, who campaigned on his beliefs of defending family values and moral principles. -
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
A black main character does not have to "fully discover" his masculinity because the main character is already protecting his family and values. Films with white directors during this time did not typically have black leads searching for the definition of what's masculine. -
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The General '90s and its Films
A short era of film where masculine heroes step down from their roles of mighty power to protect something. The films of this time were trying to convey the message that men were being self-destructive in this particular era. A plot feature of the '90s action films was the discovery that the male lead's "hyper-masculine" has failed him in some way. -
RoboCop 2 (1990)
RoboCop's sequel has a plot that revolves around individuality. Ideas of individuality give the opportunity for the male lead to express his struggles to uphold his values. -
The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
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Kindergarten Cop (1990)
A hardened cop becomes a Kindergarten teacher. The change in power forces the main character to adapt to an unfamiliar environment that isn't about fighting crime but rather to uphold moral and familial values. -
One Good Cop (1991)
A film during 1991 with themes of returning to family to resolve problems. -
City Slickers (1991)
A film during 1991 with themes of returning to family to resolve problems. -
Jungle Fever (1991)
One of many films during 1991 directed by black males. These films have themes that emphasize families and masculinity without the plot feature of main characters' bodies betraying them. -
Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)
One of many films during 1991 directed by black males. These films have themes that emphasize families and masculinity without the plot feature of main characters' bodies betraying them. -
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
The now reprogrammed Terminator (previously an enemy in the first movie) is sent to protect the main character. The same Terminator that set out to kill the main character is now protecting the main character to ensure the survival of the Terminator's new "family." -
Regarding Henry (1991)
Regarding Henry is an example of many films that parallel Kindergarten Cop in where the main characters seems to struggle in a more personal, familial, or moral scenario because these main characters continue to apply their "outdated" masculine values. -
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
One of many films during 1991 directed by black males. These films have themes that emphasize families and masculinity without the plot feature of main characters' bodies betraying them. -
The Fisher King (1991)
The Fisher King is an example of many films that parallel Kindergarten Cop in where the main characters seems to struggle in a more personal, familial, or moral scenario because these main characters continue to apply their "outdated" masculine values. -
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
The main character, the Beast, must adjust to a more proper and nurturing role to lift his curse of being a beast, paralleling the '90s change in what defines masculinity.
