What question did this study set out to answer?

To explore how Disney's adaptation of Beauty and the Beast reshapes notions of masculinity and femininity through hybridity.

June 15, 2026

Queer the Beast! Transformation and Hybridic Masculinity in Villeneuve and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

Key Points

To explore how Disney's adaptation of Beauty and the Beast reshapes notions of masculinity and femininity through hybridity.
Analysis of the narrative and character dynamics in Disney's 1991 adaptation and Villeneuve/Leprince de Beaumont's original tale.
Examination of gender fluidity in characters, particularly contrasting Gaston's and the Beast's masculinities.
Intertextual analysis of Belle's role and the implications of humor in gender representation.
Identifies a shift in narrative focus from feminine lessons to a hybrid masculinity embodied by the Beast.
Demonstrates that Gaston's rigid masculinity serves as a foil to the Beast’s fluid identity.
Concludes that the adaptation critiques traditional binary masculinity by integrating feminine traits.

Abstract

Abstract: This article examines the interconnected relationship of masculinity, hybridity, and adaptation in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991). It argues that the Disney adaptation of Villeneuve/Leprince de Beaumont’s tale reorients feminine lessons attached to the original Beauty and realizes them through Beast instead, creating a kind of intertextual gender hybridity. To contrast Gaston, a character whose masculinity is at the forefront of his personality, the article examines how gender fluidity enters the text through coded and metatextual ways, produced through the contrasts made between Gaston’s performative masculinity and the Beast’s fluid, hybridic masculinity. The article also considers Belle’s role as “funny” girl. It concludes by reading the text as a critique of binary masculinity—in other words, iterations of masculinity that reject the feminine entirely.

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