Dark Magic: The Mixed Messages of 'Beauty and the Beast'

The recent live-action reimagining of the classic Disney animation combines catchy songs and impressive spectacle with some problematic ideas about love, class and gender. It's for this very reason, Louise Lavery argues, that the film can serve as an excellent opportunity to help develop critical-analysis skills in upper primary and junior secondary classrooms.

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New & Notable, primary, middle years, remake, toxic masculinity, abuse, mental illness, Emma Watson