Gender and Communication
Media Presentation: Mulan
By:
Ashley Beach
Sigourney Schipper
Megan Stoffel
Background Information: Mulan
Movie Information:
Plot:
In 1998 Disney created an animated film about a young Chinese daughter who takes the place of her father in the war against the Huns. Mulan secretly entered in to the army under the alias of Ping the son of Fa Zhou a notorious soldier. Afraid of being identified as a women, Mulan alters her femininity to more masculine characteristics including he look. She cut her hair, dropped her high voice, and attempted to walk more like a man.
**Our goal in doing this project is to identify the challenges in the nature of gender for Mulan, along with the verbal and nonverbal communication differences between gender.
Plot:
In 1998 Disney created an animated film about a young Chinese daughter who takes the place of her father in the war against the Huns. Mulan secretly entered in to the army under the alias of Ping the son of Fa Zhou a notorious soldier. Afraid of being identified as a women, Mulan alters her femininity to more masculine characteristics including he look. She cut her hair, dropped her high voice, and attempted to walk more like a man.
**Our goal in doing this project is to identify the challenges in the nature of gender for Mulan, along with the verbal and nonverbal communication differences between gender.