I have such mixed feelings about the subversive messages in Disney! I totally get it though, that frustrated artists are slipping some of these messages into the finished product. I guess one should never judge a book by it’s cover. Your questions were relevant to the context, and the reading material was fairly easy to pull apart. Overall, I thought you did a nice job on the whole format. If I were to ad anything it would be, that you are extremely knowledgable and easy to approach. Don’t be afraid to let that show at front of the room. Time to go and destroy my daughter's childhood!
Hey Alex! First off I loved your lesson. It is something that I never in a million years would have thought about in regards to Disney movies. The subliminal messages were brought to light through your lesson and you showed us that there is more than what meets the eye. You did extremely well in getting the idea across through discussion and examples. You were very thorough and that is key as a future educator. Overall, I was highly impressed and I will remember this lesson the next time I watch a Disney movie :) Thank you!
I thought your lesson applying queer theory to Disney movies was awesome! I feel like Disney movies have always been too whitewashed, and it's great to see that there really were some alternative views all along at Disney's studios. People are generally too lazy, uncomfortable, or unwilling to dig below the surface to examine some of the subliminal messages in films, literature, and the media.
I thought your technique of having us examine songs in groups was effective, and I know the guests I brought enjoyed the exercise. The only thing I can criticize is that the texts you brought were a little too dense and extensive to be used effectively in such a brief time span. They would be great resources for further research for your students (i.e. if they needed to write a paper using the lens of queer theory to examine a work critically).
Great topic for micro teach Alex.
ReplyDeleteI have such mixed feelings about the subversive messages in Disney! I totally get it though, that frustrated artists are slipping some of these messages into the finished product. I guess one should never judge a book by it’s cover. Your questions were relevant to the context, and the reading material was fairly easy to pull apart. Overall, I thought you did a nice job on the whole format. If I were to ad anything it would be, that you are extremely knowledgable and easy to approach. Don’t be afraid to let that show at front of the room. Time to go and destroy my daughter's childhood!
Hey Alex! First off I loved your lesson. It is something that I never in a million years would have thought about in regards to Disney movies. The subliminal messages were brought to light through your lesson and you showed us that there is more than what meets the eye. You did extremely well in getting the idea across through discussion and examples. You were very thorough and that is key as a future educator. Overall, I was highly impressed and I will remember this lesson the next time I watch a Disney movie :) Thank you!
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ReplyDeleteI thought your lesson applying queer theory to Disney movies was awesome! I feel like Disney movies have always been too whitewashed, and it's great to see that there really were some alternative views all along at Disney's studios. People are generally too lazy, uncomfortable, or unwilling to dig below the surface to examine some of the subliminal messages in films, literature, and the media.
I thought your technique of having us examine songs in groups was effective, and I know the guests I brought enjoyed the exercise. The only thing I can criticize is that the texts you brought were a little too dense and extensive to be used effectively in such a brief time span. They would be great resources for further research for your students (i.e. if they needed to write a paper using the lens of queer theory to examine a work critically).