Under the sea

Keywords: body horror, deformative criticism, Disney, parenthood

Abstract

This video applies a deformative logic to images taken from Disney’s The Little Mermaid (1989), connecting them intertextually with the film Under the skin (2013), which provides the music for the piece. It thus highlights and accentuates the violent, rageful gender dynamics of The Little Mermaid, reimagining it as a nightmarish scene of body horror and female subjugation.

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Ariel Avissar, Tel Aviv University

Video maker and media scholar from the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University. Since 2021 he has been Associate Editor at [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies. His videos have been published at [in]Transition, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays, and The Cine-Files. He has also co-edited several of Sight & Sound's "Best Video Essays" polls, on which his own work has been regularly featured. His collaborative videographic projects include "Once Upon a Screen" (with Evelyn Kreutzer: vol. 1, vol. 2a and vol. 2b), the "TV Dictionary", and the "Screen Stars Dictionary" (with Tecmerin).

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2024-01-31
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Avissar A. (2024). Under the sea. Teknokultura. Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements, 21(1), 95-96. https://doi.org/10.5209/tekn.90515

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