“GIRL POWER” is one of the mantras of our time, a catchy motto from the glossed lips of glamorous actresses, pop music stars, and TV talk show personalities. This Christmas season, with the end of the first quarter of a new millennium drawing near, it’s worth pondering what Mary, the mother of Jesus, the most…
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A Principled Princess Turns Twenty-Five. The Swan Princess: An Appreciation
The true Cinderella story of animated princess films is not to be found in Disney’s Cinderella but in the real-life story of Disney rival Richard Rich’s The Swan Princess. Overlooked at its box office ball of 1994 (the belle of that ball being the re-released The Lion King), The Swan Princess has, over the years,…
Why Everyone is Wrong About Frozen. Part One: The Movie No One Ever Sees
“An argument that presumes to question the unquestioned and to wander some distance from the steady paths of received truth…cannot reasonably hope to be popular.” — Henry Knight Miller, Preface to Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones and the Romantic Tradition. Almost ten years now after Frozen debuted, and, amazingly, most of the world has yet to…