Introduction

When many of us were younger, the messages we received from Disney movies seemed innocent and wholesome. Taking a closer look at these same movies years later using our sociological imaginations, we discovered that Disney may have been teaching us more than we thought. We analyzed six different animated Disney movies, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Oliver and Company, Dumbo, and Aladdin, and here is what we found.