"Because Disney is such a large media corporation and their products are so ubiquitous and so widespread globally, Disney's stories and the stories that Disney tells will be the stories that will form and help form a child's imaginary world, all over the world, and that's an incredible amount of power. When you have that kind of power, when you essentially become a dominant storyteller for children globally, we have to begin to ask very serious questions about what stories are being told here. Are these the stories we really want our children to hear?" -- Justin Lewis, Professor in Journalism, Media, and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University.
"Disney films all play a similar refrain: a stylized, naturalized, and Westernized elite hero combats a privileged, antisocial, oversized villain, while cute animal sidekicks and thuggish rebels knock about in front of a shapeless, faceless humanity. Animating hierarchy centers Disney's vision, whatever the era, geography, or species." --Lee Artz, "Monarchs, Monsters, and Multiculturalism," in Rethinking Disney, Ed. Mike Budd and Max H. Kirsch
"In the world of Disney, females not only get into trouble easily, they also lack the ability to save their own lives...however strong or powerful a female character may be, she still needs to be rescued by a male." --Mickey Mouse Monopoly, Written and Produced by Chyng Feng Sun, Directed by Miguel Picker, Northampton, MA: Media Education Foundation, 2002.
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