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JoieLiewSecondEssay 4 - 25 May 2024 - Main.JoieLiew
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Portrayal of Lawyers in Bee Movie, Cars: Law and Life | |
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> | -- By JoieLiew - Revised 25 May 2024 | | | PBS Kids, Pixar, Disney, Studio Ghibli, and many more – I could go on listing the numerous media companies that defined the stories in my childhood and continue to influence what I consume now. Ono and Pham observed that, in our “hyper-information society,” media plays a role in educational and social networking spaces in “help[ing] people to make sense of themselves and their relationships with others.” This role of media representations was situated within the context of studying Asian Americans and the media, but I find their theoretical insights to be broadly applicable to the power of media on social processes. For instance, Nielsen, Patel, and Rosner’s “Ahead of the Lawmen": Law and Morality in Disney Animated Films 1960-1998 reflects Ono and Pham’s ideas in a context focused on the law where they analyzed the portrayal of law and morality in Disney animated films. Differing from how their article discussed the disconnection of law from morals and even justice in Disney movies, I will be considering the ways in which lawyer characters from films intended for a young audience may connect law with justice. | | | In reality, a bee and a car would not be seen as lawyers. Yet, I relate to their stories because I too find it hard sometimes to see myself as a lawyer. Especially in law school, I mostly feel less like the characters in the human, truthful stories we encountered in Lawyerland and more like a bee that cannot quite find their place in the hive. But, interpreting Barry’s and Sally’s stories in the films as them undergoing metamorphosis, I may one day find an unconscious moment where I transform into someone who articulates a theory of social action.
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