Sean Griffin Explained

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.[4]

Tinker Belles and Evil Queens

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.[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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sean Griffin . 2023-12-30 . www.smu.edu . en.
  2. Web site: Sean Griffin . 2023-12-30 . www.cmstudies.org.
  3. Web site: Sean Griffin State University of New York Press . 2023-12-30 . sunypress.edu.
  4. Book: Griffin, Sean P. . Tinker Belles and Evil Queens . 2020-06-05 . New York University Press . 10.18574/nyu/9780814738719.001.0001 . 978-0-8147-3871-9.
  5. Harry . Joseph C. . Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from Inside Out (Book) . . 2002 . 79 . 1 . 258–261 . 1077-6990.
  6. Herren . Greg . Greg Herren . The Lavender Mouse . . 2000 . 8 . 12 . 29.
  7. Lang . Nico . Disney's Long, Complicated History with Queer Characters . 30 December 2023 . . 21 March 2017.
  8. Alexander . Jonathan . Jonathan Alexander . 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.
  9. Web site: Villarreal . Daniel . 2023-12-08 . Popular gay YouTuber deletes online presence after video accuses him of rampant plagiarism . 2023-12-30 . LGBTQ Nation.
  10. Web site: Alter . Rebecca . 2023-12-22 . Hbomberguy Didn't Want to Make That 4-Hour Plagiarism Video . 2023-12-30 . Vulture . en.