‘Humanity rising from the depths of brine’: an oceanic politics in Disney’s Moana

• Main Author: Chew, Kevin
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Communication; Disney; Animation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168579
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Disney’s Moana (2016) portrays a village leader’s daughter who leaves her home island and sails across the open ocean to undo a curse spreading across Polynesia in response to a Promethean blunder by the demigod Maui. The film’s popular reception focuses on its representation of Polynesian culture,...