La diversidad de representaciones de Blancanieves en el cine de animación (1937-2009)

Abstract

Fairy tales have been transforming their ways of dissemination from oral transmission to audiovisual one. One of the traditional female characters is Snow White, whose construction is analyzed in this article from the perspective of diversity: different types are taken into account: physical, psychological, ethnic, religious, family, cultural, socioeconomic, functional, sexual, and age; all of them traversed by gender. Additionally, this character is put into dialogue mainly with the construction of her antagonist. The corpus, which starts from the first known printed version (Grimm brothers), addresses the Disney film (1937) and two 21st-century animated films: Shrek the Third (2007) and Happily N’Ever After 2 (2009). The results show that the protagonists and their conflicts –between mothers and daughters, between childhood and puberty, etc.– have been represented in different ways only in some of the fields, but always offering a gender perspective conditioned by the society of the moment.