Open AccessFood Poisoning: Surplus and Suffering in Contemporary Children’s Film
Author(s) -
Naarah Sawers,
Elizabeth Parsons
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
papers (victoria park)/papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1837-4530
pISSN - 1034-9243
DOI - 10.21153/pecl2005vol15no1art1256
Subject(s) - privilege (computing) , construct (python library) , power (physics) , white (mutation) , art , aesthetics , sociology , political science , law , biology , physics , biochemistry , quantum mechanics , computer science , gene , programming language
Animated films like 'The Lion King', 'Stuart Little', 'Shark Tale' and 'The Incredibles' are considered in relation to representations of hunger and especially of bodies marked by hunger. It is argued that the interplay of food and power in these films construct regimes of power, which inexorably privilege white, masculine and middleclass bodies.