Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism

This essay will be analysing female anthropomorphism within the Disney Company. The first instances of female Anthropomorphism is through the Disney classic shorts starting in 1928

Minnie mouse’s debut in plane Crazy [1] [top] and her in Steamboat Willie [2] [bottom]

Minnie mouse shares the same kind of level of anthropomorphism that her counterpart micky mouse does [3], the way we gender those characters is more from tertiary sexual characteristics such as noticeable eyelashes and clothing such as skirts, flowers and high heels to suggest femininity. [4]
This idea this idea of anthro where Characters would keep most animalistic features and body types and the only shift would be that they wear clothing, bipedal and can talk would set them apart from regular animals would continue on into the 70’s  [5]

Daisy ducks Debut in Mr duck steps out [6] [top] and Clarabelle Cow in Symphony hour [bottom] [7]

There is a divide between Anthro in short films and feature length film as films such as films like Bambi and the aristocats treating animal characters for the majority of the film as animals, making them walk on all fours. [8] In Bambi there is a great reliance on voice and tertiary sex characteristics like eyelashes, blush and eyeshadow, [9] it also employs the trope in media Female characters will wear softer lighter colour pallets. [10]

Thumper and bambi surrounded by thumpers sisters [top] Thumpers love interest [bottom] [11]

In the Aristocrats we can see that the character marie’s body type is very much the same to her brothers body shape she is only seen as female because she has a similar fur colour to her mother so we can easily connect the two together and that she is wearing pink bows.[12] While duchess tries to communicate femininity with her blue eyes [13] and necklace like collar.

Marie with her brothers [top] Duchess and Marie [bottom] [14]
We can see a direct shift in anthropomorphism in the mid-80’s with the creation Disney television animation:

Miss kitty mouse from the great mouse detective.[15] [top] Gadget from chip and dale rescue rangers. [bottom] [16]

Here we can see that Female anthrophomorphisism leans more towards human anatomy where male anatomy largly stays the same.[17] They are seperated with the inclusion of breasts and an hourglass figure [18]  and long hair.[19] Animation becomes constrained as females are more jointed while males have more simplifyed animal anatomy. 

Referances:
[1] Disney, W

[2] Disney, W

[3] Tv tropes: Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism

[4] Tv tropes:  Tertiary sexual characteristics

[5] Tv tropes: Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism

[6] Disney, W

[7] Disney, W

[8] Tv tropes: Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism

[9] Tv tropes:  Tertiary sexual characteristics

[10]Tv Tropes: Pale females dark males

[11] Hand, d

[12] TV tropes: Pink means Feminine.

[13] Tv Tropes: True blue femininity

[14] Reitherman, w

[15] Clements, R

[16] Buena Vista Television

[17] Tv tropes: Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism

[18] Tv tropes:  Humanoid female animal

[19] Tv tropes: Furry female mane

[20] Tv tropes: Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism

Bibliography:

Aristocats, The. 1970. [film] Reitherman, w. Dir. USA: walt Disney productions.

Bambi.1942. [Film] Hand,d. dir. USA : Walt Disney productions.
Chip ‘n dale Rescue Rangers.[Animated TV series]. Buena Vista Television. [no date].

Great mouse detective, The. 1986. Clements, R, et al. Dir. USA: Walt Disney productions.

 Mr.duck steps out. 1940. [Animated  short]. Disney, w. dir. USA: RKO Radio pictures.

Plane crazy.  1929. [Animated short]. Disney, w. dir. USA:  Celebrity productions.

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Steamboat Willie. 1928. [Animated short]. Disney, w. dir. USA: Celebrity productions.

Symphony hour. 1942. [Animated  short]. Disney, w. dir. USA: RKO Radio pictures.