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WORKING TITLE:

Exploring Difference Through Queer Tropes in "Nimona"

Definition/Scope: focus on two specific characters in the movie, the two protagonists, and how both serve as overt and covert representation of different queer identities through their designs, personality and story.

Aims: Discuss queer theory through the lens of Nimona and animation/animated films/the animation industry?

Research Methods: analysis of film and theory texts.

PRIMARY RESEARCH: gathering information first hand.
SECONDARY RESEARCH: analysing other books/journals etc.

RESEARCH / READING LIST / BIBLIOGRAPHY-IN-PROGRESS

- Alexander Doty: Making Things Perfectly Queer - Interpreting Mass Culture

- Nikki Sullivan: A critical introduction to queer theory

- Judith Butler: Gender Trouble

- Judith Butler: Bodies That Matter

- Judith Butler: Undoing Gender

- Sean Griffin: Tinker Belles and Evil Queens

- Vito Russo: The Celluloid Closet

- Roland Barthes: The Death Of The Author - Image Music Text

- Sean Burke: The Death and Return of The Author

Notes From First Meeting With Tutor (Sarah Bonner)

Notes From Second Meeting With Tutor (Sarah Bonner)

NIMONA NARRATIVE

Choices and decisions behind the story and characters.

Ballister sides with Nimona properly for the first time, encourages her to be herself and is (not) coincidentally the most happy and free he's appeared so far in the movie. During the confrontation with his former lover he and turns the questions he's been dealing with onto Ambrosius and it shows a contrast to where he was at the start of the movie vs now seeing the truth, he's not the same as he was and is re-examining everything in a new light.

The queer experience metaphor of all time!!!!

The solution.