‘ผู้หญิง’ ในภาพยนตร์และละครโทรทัศน์จากเทพนิยายซินเดอเรลลา สโนว์ไวท์ และเจ้าหญิงนิทรา

Abstract

This research aims to study the narrative strategies, characterization of female characters, and the social ideas as reflected through the female characters in films and television series that were adapted from three fairy tales: Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Sleeping Beauty, using qualitative textual analysis method to examine 17 films and one TV series. The research result showed the female characters in films and TV series that still fit the typical plot of fairy tale. The protagonists – Cinderella, Snow White, and Aurora, are still presented with only one side as an ideal female in typical fairy tales. Similarly, the antagonists are portrayed with only one side which reflects irrational wickedness. As for the films and TV series that have adapted different plots from the fairy tales, the protagonists were created with both gentle and strong characters, who also help the heroes in emergency. Meanwhile, the antagonists have been made to show more of their human side by presenting both their brutality and anguish. Moreover, the films also convey the ideas of divisions among races, ethnicities, and social classes, family relationships, the role of women as a mother, the role of women's sexuality, leadership, as well as the issues of power and beauty that influences women today.