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Title: Pocahontas


1
Pocahontas
  • Story Convention
  • Clash of cultures
  • Coming of age romance
  • Spunky hero/heroine
  • Edgertons analysis

2
Image Power
  • Re-telling history
  • Shaping images
  • Disney version becomes the
    definitive version

3
Global Supertext
  • Pochontas as supertext
  • 80 million investment 1 billion revenues
  • Burger King
  • Payless Shoes
  • Mattel
  • Trailer on Lion King tapes (50 million)

4
Blurred Message
  • Algonquin advice rejected
  • More positive images sentimental
  • Vague environmental themes
  • You think you own whatever land you land on,
  • The earth is just a dead thing you can claim
  • But I know every rock and tree and creature

5
Blurred Message
  • Fictional love story
  • Race, environmentalism, religion downplayed
  • wrapped in nostalgic fantasy
  • Flip-flop of traditional hero villain roles
  • Easy scapegoating of dominance

6
History of the Other?
7
Other History
  • One of the happiest times in the struggle to
    maintain the little Colony was during the Peace
    of Pocahontas. When John Rolfe
  • married the young Indian Princess, daughter of
    the powerful Emperor Powhatan, the colonists
    enjoyed a peace with the
  • Indians unequaled before her marriage with Rolfe
    or after her tragic, early death at Land's End,
    England, where she was
  • buried in the Churchyard. Numerous of her
    descendants are members of the Jamestowne
    Society. And through their
  • memberships we remember Princess Pocahontas'
    immense contribution to Jamestowne. Without the
    Peace of Pocahontas,
  • that short interval of time may well have been
    spent upon disastrous warfare instead of the
    building of the settlement that
  • would begin the Nation.

8
Remaking Pocahontas
9
The White Mans Indian?
  • Social construction of beauty standards and race
  • Indians look and sound like whites
  • Pocahontas aerobicized, Native American
    superbabe

10
The finest creature the human race has to
offer
11
History Lessons
  • Pocahontas seen as peace offering to Algonquin
    protest of Disney America
  • Visits to Jamestown up 60 percent
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