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Dr Amy Davis

Lecturer

+44 (0)1482 465649 | A.Davis@hull.ac.uk

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education
  • School of The Arts

Related groups

  • Screen

Summary

Amy Davis is the author of numerous books and papers on Disney and animation, including Good Girls and Wicked Witches (2006) and Handsome Heroes and Vile Villains (2013), as well as the editor of the book Discussing Disney (expected 2018). Her primary research interests are Disney studies, US animation history, gender studies, and Hollywood horror.

Recent outputs

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Book Chapter

"On 'Love Experts,' Evil Princes, Gullible Princesses, and Frozen"

Davis, A. (2022). "On 'Love Experts,' Evil Princes, Gullible Princesses, and Frozen". In N. Brown (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Children's Film (649-670). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190939359.001.0001

Making it Disney's Snow White

Davis, A. (2021). Making it Disney's Snow White. In C. Pallant, & C. Holliday (Eds.), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: New Perspectives on Production, Reception, Legacy (97-113). London: Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501351198.ch-005

Rotoscoping uncanny bodies: Animation technology, animation aesthetics

Davis, A. M. (2015). Rotoscoping uncanny bodies: Animation technology, animation aesthetics. In A. D. Ornella (Ed.), Making Humans: Religious, Technological and Aesthetic Perspectives (143-160). Oxford UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press

The Uncanny and mannequins

Davis, A. M., & Pagnoni Berns, F. G. (2015). The Uncanny and mannequins. In F. Pascuzzi, & B. Cracchiolo (Eds.), Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema (19-34). Fairleigh Dickinson University Press/Rowman & Littlefield

Journal Article

How time works in the Simpsons

Gilboy, J., Davis, A. M., & Zborowski, J. (2015). How time works in the Simpsons. Animation : an interdisciplinary journal, 10(3), 175-188. https://doi.org/10.1177/1746847715602403

James Zborowski

Postgraduate supervision

Applications welcomed in the areas of Disney (all aspects), US animation (cinematic and/or televisual, to include merchandizing), Hollywood horror. Completed PhDs - Humor and Satire in American Prime-Time Animated Sit-Coms - Representations of Masculinity in the Historical Figure of Mark Antony - The Simpsons and Meme Theory Current PhD supervisions - Disney Princess Merchandising - Music as Narrative Device in Disney

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