White Royalty: Whitewashing from Prince of Persia to Sofia the First

Walt Disney's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (released May 28, 2010) and Sophia The First: Once Upon a Princess (released November 18, 2012) are two entertainment pieces marketed as fantasies for mass audience consumption that use White actors/representations to tell the story of a non-Whi...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wright, Lindsay Paige
Other Authors:	Catherine A Coleman
Format:	Others
Language:	en
Published:	Texas Christian University 2013
Subjects:	College of Communication
Online Access:	http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-08082013-094329/

id	ndltd-TCU-oai-etd.tcu.edu-etd-08082013-094329
record_format	oai_dc
spelling	ndltd-TCU-oai-etd.tcu.edu-etd-08082013-0943292013-08-09T05:58:46Z White Royalty: Whitewashing from Prince of Persia to Sofia the First Wright, Lindsay Paige College of Communication Walt Disney's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (released May 28, 2010) and Sophia The First: Once Upon a Princess (released November 18, 2012) are two entertainment pieces marketed as fantasies for mass audience consumption that use White actors/representations to tell the story of a non-White character. After historically placing race in film, defining whitewashing and its relation to Eurocentrism, and revealing the scarcity of leading roles for minorities, analysis of both The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess utilizes John Fiske's Three Levels of Coding with insight through Stuart Hall's interpretation of Antonio Gramsci's hegemony. Eurocentrism is therefore identified within whitewashing and revealed as a continuation of White favortism in modern entertainment media. Catherine A Coleman Jacqueline Lambiase David Whillock Texas Christian University 2013-08-08 text application/pdf application/msword http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-08082013-094329/ http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-08082013-094329/ en unrestricted I hereby certify that, if appropriate, I have obtained and attached hereto a written permission statement from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis, dissertation, or project report, allowing distribution as specified below. I certify that the version I submitted is the same as that approved by my advisory committee. I hereby grant to TCU or its agents the non-exclusive license to archive and make accessible, under the conditions specified below, my thesis, dissertation, or project report in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. I retain all other ownership rights to the copyright of the thesis, dissertation or project report. I also retain the right to use in future works (such as articles or books) all or part of this thesis, dissertation, or project report.
collection	NDLTD
language	en
format	Others
sources	NDLTD
topic	College of Communication
spellingShingle	College of Communication Wright, Lindsay Paige White Royalty: Whitewashing from Prince of Persia to Sofia the First
description	Walt Disney's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (released May 28, 2010) and Sophia The First: Once Upon a Princess (released November 18, 2012) are two entertainment pieces marketed as fantasies for mass audience consumption that use White actors/representations to tell the story of a non-White character. After historically placing race in film, defining whitewashing and its relation to Eurocentrism, and revealing the scarcity of leading roles for minorities, analysis of both The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess utilizes John Fiske's Three Levels of Coding with insight through Stuart Hall's interpretation of Antonio Gramsci's hegemony. Eurocentrism is therefore identified within whitewashing and revealed as a continuation of White favortism in modern entertainment media.
author2	Catherine A Coleman
author_facet	Catherine A Coleman Wright, Lindsay Paige
author	Wright, Lindsay Paige
author_sort	Wright, Lindsay Paige
title	White Royalty: Whitewashing from Prince of Persia to Sofia the First
title_short	White Royalty: Whitewashing from Prince of Persia to Sofia the First
title_full	White Royalty: Whitewashing from Prince of Persia to Sofia the First
title_fullStr	White Royalty: Whitewashing from Prince of Persia to Sofia the First
title_full_unstemmed	White Royalty: Whitewashing from Prince of Persia to Sofia the First
title_sort	white royalty: whitewashing from prince of persia to sofia the first
publisher	Texas Christian University
publishDate	2013
url	http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-08082013-094329/
work_keys_str_mv	AT wrightlindsaypaige whiteroyaltywhitewashingfromprinceofpersiatosofiathefirst
_version_	1716596032969637888

White Royalty: Whitewashing from Prince of Persia to Sofia the First

Similar Items