Lammon Marissa
Department of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.
Omega (Westport). 2025 Sep;91(4):1693-1721. doi: 10.1177/00302228231161759. Epub 2023 Mar 14.
Disney's notably traumatic character deaths have been the focus of several academic studies that identify the potential harm of witnessing animated deaths during childhood; however, these studies have almost exclusively examined death images within film without looking to images that exist external to the media texts themselves. This paper addresses such limitations by uniquely examining how audiences use/produce images to offer reinterpretations of popular death scenes in Disney films. The components of user-generated images, descriptions, and comments on deviantart.com indicate that audiences utilize creative expression to communicate the traumatic experience of viewing character deaths during childhood, change elements that are frustratingly inaccurate, and re-write narratives to challenge assumptions of sympathy. Such an analysis considers what these artistic expressions might suggest about the decoding of animated death by consumers and encourages new ways of thinking about the consumption and interpretation of death narratives.
迪士尼显著的创伤性角色死亡一直是几项学术研究的焦点，这些研究指出了儿童时期目睹动画角色死亡的潜在危害；然而，这些研究几乎都只考察了电影中的死亡画面，而没有关注媒体文本本身之外的图像。本文通过独特地考察观众如何使用/制作图像来重新诠释迪士尼电影中流行的死亡场景，解决了这些局限性。在deviantart.com上用户生成的图像、描述和评论的组成部分表明，观众利用创造性表达来传达童年时期观看角色死亡的创伤经历，改变那些令人沮丧的不准确元素，并重新编写叙事以挑战同情的假设。这样的分析考虑了这些艺术表达可能对消费者解读动画死亡意味着什么，并鼓励以新的方式思考死亡叙事的消费和解读。
