Welcome to Ralph Li, Roxanne Roxas, Jennifer Snow, and Joline Chen’s COGN 150 Final Project Blog. So what is R2J2? To clarify, it's nothing immensely cryptic.
Essentially, Ralph + Roxanne = R2 and Jennifer + Joline = J2. We know, we know. It's not very original, but it gave us a good laugh.
If you like our not-so-subtle play on words/reference to Star Wars, then perhaps you'll find the rest of this blog interesting as well.
We are here to analyze films, cartoons, and animations in relation to disabilities in media. We hope you find the content of this blog entertaining, intriguing, and perhaps even enlightening.
Sources:
Sally Chivers, “The Horror of Becoming ‘One of Us’: Tod Browning’s Freaks and Disability,”Screening Disability, Ed, Christopher Smit and Anthony Enns," (57-64).
Paul Longmore. “Screening Stereotypes, Images of Disabled People in Television and Motion Pictures”. Why I Burned my Book, and Other Essays on Disability. Temple University Press: Philadelphia, 2003.
Nicole Markotic, “Disabling the Viewer: Perceptions of Disability in Tod Browning’s Freaks,”Screening Disability, Ed, Christopher Smit and Anthony Enns," (65-72).
Jack A. Nelson, "Broken Images: Portrayals of Those with Disabilities in American Media," The Disabiled, the Media, and the Information Age, (1-24).
Martin F. Norden, The Cinema of Isolation, A History of Physical Disability in the Movies. Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, NJ, 1994.
etc.
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Winnie the Pooh
“Winnie the Pooh” is a beloved childhood cartoon that i confess to even watching many many episodes of it when i was younger. The series revolves around the character of Winnie who is a pooh bear.. assumable yes a bear with yellow fur, and his adventures with his many friends in the fictional world inside a story book of the Hundred Acre Woods. Their human friend Christopher Robins visits them occasionally, though i am not entirely sure how and will delve into further in this explication.
The characters in this children’s cartoons though arguably are relatively innocent, can be interpreted as each interestingly having different a different mental disorder, much like the seven dwarves in Snow white.
In the article ” Mental Illness in Disney Animated Films” by Andrea Lawson and Gregory Fouts, there are more than 34 coded Disney films that have represented some sort of mental disability or another (for example ” crazy” or “nuts”). Because of these representations and repetition of viewership in children audiences, children may ” acquire and unrealistic and stereotypic view of individuals with a mental illness in society, which could be exacerbated by their failure to distinguish between fiction and reality” (Lawson and Gregory, 28).
So, here is a summary of the linked disorders that each character possesses.
- Winnie the Pooh — eating disorder
- Piglet — general anxiety disorder
- Rabbit — OCD
- Tigger — ADHD, possible substance abuse
- Eeyore — Major Deppressive/Manic Depressive
- Christopher Robbin — schizophrenic?
- Kanga/Roo — Codependent.. eh. But they are indeed parent and child, so i will argue no real disability on this one.
- Owl — The therapist…
Winnie the Pooh:
Tigger:
Eeyore:
I personally believe that Eeyore’s character is potentially one of the most harmful to children. Eeyore is always down and sad, sitting alone on the hill to watch the sky by himself. If there should be any children who admire Eeyore, they may think that being depressed and isolating oneself is .. cool.
Piglet:
Rabbit:
Christopher Robins:
