Sean Griffin

Sean Griffin is a critical queer film theory scholar and professor at the Meadows School of the Arts. His work includes Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out, which was adapted from his dissertation.

Tinker Belles and Evil Queens

Tinker Belles and Evil Queens (2000) suggests that The Walt Disney Company, despite having a focus on heterocentric "family values" in its films, has long attracted gay audiences, particularly through queercoding and gay subtext of its films. It was described by journalist Nico Lang of Harper's Bazaar as "the book on the gay history of Disney". According to Jonathan Alexander, Griffin argues that Disney did this out of economic considerations of LGBT consumers paying for Disney products.

Select publications

Griffin, Sean (2000). Tinker Belles and Evil Queens : The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814738702.
Benshoff, Harry M.; Griffin, Sean (2004). America on film: representing race, class, gender, and sexuality at the movies. Wiley. ISBN 9780631225829.
Benshoff, Harry M.; Griffin, Sean (2005). Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9780742568570.

References

1 2 "Sean Griffin". www.smu.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
↑ "Sean Griffin". www.cmstudies.org. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
↑ "Sean Griffin | State University of New York Press". sunypress.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
1 2 Griffin, Sean P. (2020). Tinker Belles and Evil Queens. New York University Press. doi:10.18574/nyu/9780814738719.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-8147-3871-9.
↑ Harry, Joseph C. (2002). "Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from Inside Out (Book)". Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 79 (1): 258–261. ISSN 1077-6990.
↑ Herren, Greg (2000). "The Lavender Mouse". Lambda Book Report. 8 (12): 29.
↑ Lang, Nico (21 March 2017). "Disney's Long, Complicated History with Queer Characters". Harper's Bazaar. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
↑ Alexander, Jonathan (2001). "Family friendly? Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out". The Lesbian Review of Books. 7 (3): 14. ProQuest 218121917.

[:0-1] 1 2 "Sean Griffin". www.smu.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-30.

[2] "Sean Griffin". www.cmstudies.org. Retrieved 2023-12-30.

[:1-3] "Sean Griffin | State University of New York Press". sunypress.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-30.

[:2-4] 1 2 Griffin, Sean P. (2020). Tinker Belles and Evil Queens. New York University Press. doi:10.18574/nyu/9780814738719.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-8147-3871-9.

[5] Harry, Joseph C. (2002). "Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from Inside Out (Book)". Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 79 (1): 258–261. ISSN 1077-6990.

[6] Herren, Greg (2000). "The Lavender Mouse". Lambda Book Report. 8 (12): 29.

[7] Lang, Nico (21 March 2017). "Disney's Long, Complicated History with Queer Characters". Harper's Bazaar. Retrieved 30 December 2023.

[8] Alexander, Jonathan (2001). "Family friendly? Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out". The Lesbian Review of Books. 7 (3): 14. ProQuest 218121917.