{"title":"“Where All Dreams Are Good Dreams”? The Dramatic Function of the Lullaby in Disney’s Animated Feature Films and the Trope of the Romantic Mother","authors":"M. Behrendt","doi":"10.5406/19407610.16.1.03","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article demonstrates (1) how Disney’s animated films follow a long tradition of connecting lullabies to loss and death; (2) how an analytical approach toward lullabies can correct established opinions on the representation of mothers in these films; and (3) how both phenomena draw on a specific perception of childhood and motherhood modeled by Romanticism.","PeriodicalId":41714,"journal":{"name":"Music Sound and the Moving Image","volume":"67 1","pages":"37 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Music Sound and the Moving Image","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5406/19407610.16.1.03","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article demonstrates (1) how Disney’s animated films follow a long tradition of connecting lullabies to loss and death; (2) how an analytical approach toward lullabies can correct established opinions on the representation of mothers in these films; and (3) how both phenomena draw on a specific perception of childhood and motherhood modeled by Romanticism.