Witches, Bitches and Femmes Fatales: Viewing the Female Grotesque in Children's Films
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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2000vol10no1art1351Keywords:
children's films, femininity, gender roles, witches, social norms, transgressionsAbstract
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FILMS
Fatal Attraction (1987) Paramount Pictures.
Gilda (1946) Columbia.
The Little Mermaid (1989) Disney Enterprises (videorecording).
Dalmatians (1996) Disney Enterprises (videorecording).
The Witches (1989) Lorimar Film Entertainment (videorecording).
