Sean Griffin
Sean Griffin is a critical queer film theory scholar and professor at the Meadows School of the Arts.[1][2][3] His work includes Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out, which was adapted from his dissertation.[1][4]
Tinker Belles and Evil Queens
[edit]Tinker Belles and Evil Queens (2000) suggests that The Walt Disney Company, despite having a focus on heterocentric "family values" in its films, has long attracted gay audiences, particularly through queercoding and gay subtext of its films.[4][5][6] It was described by journalist Nico Lang of Harper's Bazaar as "the book on the gay history of Disney".[7] According to Jonathan Alexander, Griffin argues that Disney did this out of economic considerations of LGBT consumers paying for Disney products.[8]
In 2023, Hbomberguy accused James Somerton of plagiarising text from Griffin's Tinker Belles in one of his YouTube video essays.[9][10]
Select publications
[edit]- Griffin, Sean (2000). Tinker Belles and Evil Queens : The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814738702.
- Benshoff, Harry M.; Griffin, Sean (2004). America on film: representing race, class, gender, and sexuality at the movies. Wiley. ISBN 9780631225829.
- Benshoff, Harry M.; Griffin, Sean (2005). Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9780742568570.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Sean Griffin". www.smu.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
- ^ "Sean Griffin". www.cmstudies.org. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
- ^ "Sean Griffin | State University of New York Press". sunypress.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
- ^ a b Griffin, Sean P. (2020-06-05). Tinker Belles and Evil Queens. New York University Press. doi:10.18574/nyu/9780814738719.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-8147-3871-9.
- ^ Harry, Joseph C. (2002). "Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from Inside Out (Book)". Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 79 (1): 258–261. ISSN 1077-6990.
- ^ Herren, Greg (2000). "The Lavender Mouse". Lambda Book Report. 8 (12): 29.
- ^ Lang, Nico (21 March 2017). "Disney's Long, Complicated History with Queer Characters". Harper's Bazaar. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
- ^ Alexander, Jonathan (2001). "Family friendly? Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out". The Lesbian Review of Books. 7 (3): 14. ProQuest 218121917 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Villarreal, Daniel (2023-12-08). "Popular gay YouTuber deletes online presence after video accuses him of rampant plagiarism". LGBTQ Nation. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
- ^ Alter, Rebecca (2023-12-22). "Hbomberguy Didn't Want to Make That 4-Hour Plagiarism Video". Vulture. Retrieved 2023-12-30.