Deciding on an animation to analyse (OUAN401)

I'm having a hard time finding an animation to analyse that relates to my quote, the key themes of which are propaganda, social control, hegemony and elitism and that sort of thing. The obvious candidate for this is "Animal Farm" from 1954, an easy film to relate to the topic of propaganda as it is literally an allegory for life under Soviet Russia.

My problem with this, though, is that it may be a quite generic option. The first thing that pops into everyone's heads is Animal Farm and while there's a tonne of stuff to discuss, it's been discussed plenty of times before.

The films "Antz" and "A Bug's Life" both involve themes of a social hierarchy and social control, as the societies of ants are a perfect model for communism. Perhaps they would be good options. The ants are assigned roles by a totalitarian government, and there is a strong theme of one character defying the social norm and breaking out of their role, just like in the book 1984! To a lesser extent, this is present in Bee Movie with bees, but I will never taint this module by including such a film.

I'm sure that I could slide a link to social control into some movies that aren't traditionally associated with it, and offer up a new angle on them. Like the theme of social control in "Cinderella", where the upper class prevents the lower class from mobilising upwards. It's a METAPHOR for how the Tories try and implement grammar schools and stuff like that. Or what about Pinocchio? Not much more of a clearer metaphor for indoctrination than LITERALLY having a voice in your ear that tells you what is right and wrong according to it's own subjective views.

I'm not implying that Jiminy Cricket is Stalin or anything, but I definitely am

Or I could analyse an animation in context, one that is itself an example of propaganda and mental manipulation, rather than one that alludes to these things.

I could look at any propaganda cartoon. Some good ones could include "The Millionaire", a 1963 Russian Cartoon in which a dog inherits his owner's fortune, but as a result becomes a filthy decadent capitalist. Or any of the cartoons that Disney made in the war where Donald Duck was a Nazi.

The Millionaire (1963)