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The positioning of the Black Magic Woman character beyond the role of bio-logical female and within the African American community, as examined in Darnell Martin’s I Like It Like That is the focus of the previous chapter. In I Like It Like That, the unfixed nature of the Black Magic Woman allows for it to be personified by a Latino transgender character. This depiction speaks to the fluidity and liberating aspects of the characterisation as standing outside of the norms of mainstream society, of which it subverts. Within the previous chapters, analysis of the Black Magic Woman character focused on live action independent and studioproduced films directed by black filmmakers. This final chapter centres on the Hollywood adoption of the Black Magic Woman archetype in the Walt Disney Pictures’ 2009 classically animated musical The Princess and the Frog.
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Missouri, M.A. (2015). It Is Easy Being Green: Disney’s Post-Racial Princess and Black Magic Nostalgia in The Princess and the Frog. In: Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137454188_7
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