| Autor: |
Álvarez San Román, Mercedes, Gil Vázquez, Asier |
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Feminist Media Histories; Fall2024, Vol. 10 Issue 4, p141-148, 8p |
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Disney digital animated films seem to be increasingly open to a multicultural strategy in which the life experiences of different ethnic and racial communities are addressed. One of the biggest hits with Latinx protagonists is Disney's Encanto (2021), codirected by Byron Howard, Jared Bush, and Charise Castro Smith. Based on a story about the crisis of a Colombian family with magical powers, the film can be read from the perspective of postmemory, as an allegory about the inheritance of cultural traumas. This video essay analyzes the figure of Alma, the grandmother and matriarch. This representation of the aging woman is halfway between the tradition of Disney's villainesses and godmothers. Its complexity lies in the embodiment of power dynamics within the family and the generational struggle between the importance of a legacy and the need to overcome the painful past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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