Sean Griffin

Sean Griffin is a critical queer film theory scholar and professor at the Meadows School of the Arts. ^{[1] [2] [3]} His work includes Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out, which was adapted from his dissertation. ^{[1] [4]}

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. ^{[4] [5] [6]} It was described by journalist Nico Lang of Harper's Bazaar as "the book on the gay history of Disney". ^[7] According to Jonathan Alexander, Griffin argues that Disney did this out of economic considerations of LGBT consumers paying for Disney products. ^[8]

In 2023, Hbomberguy accused James Somerton of plagiarising text from Griffin's Tinker Belles in one of his YouTube video essays. ^{[9] [10]}

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. "Sean Griffin". www.smu.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
2. "Sean Griffin". www.cmstudies.org. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
3. "Sean Griffin | State University of New York Press". sunypress.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
4. 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.
9. Villarreal, Daniel (2023-12-08). "Popular gay YouTuber deletes online presence after video accuses him of rampant plagiarism". LGBTQ Nation. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
10. Alter, Rebecca (2023-12-22). "Hbomberguy Didn't Want to Make That 4-Hour Plagiarism Video". Vulture. Retrieved 2023-12-30.