SeDUCKtress! Magica De Spell, Scrooge McDuck, and the Avuncular Anthropomorphism of Carl Barks’s Midcentury Disney Comics
This chapter selects a fascinating duck-faced character to highlight a sexual tension. Even as a duck, Magica De Spell defies the traditional connection between women and children is thus a monstrous threat to the order of Scrooge McDuck’s empire. Her malevolence and charm demonstrate a power to be reckoned with in Duckburg, and as a part of Disney’s influential picture of the wider social world, she exposes mid-century America’s most flagrant hypocrisies of gender and class.
2010 ◽
Vol 80
(45)
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pp. 279-292
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