Fan Phenomena : Disney / edited by Sabrina Mittermeier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mittermeier, Sabrina, editor.

Series:

Fan phenomena.

Fan phenomena

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walt Disney Company.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect Books, [2022]

Summary:

The first book to comprehensively engage with Disney fans and the company's relationship with them, spanning theme parks, film, television, stage productions and novels, as well as a variety of fannish interventions. It addresses timely issues such as race and queerness, the Covid- 19 pandemic and the advent of Disney+. 20 b&w illus.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction

PART 1 DIVERSITY AND THE DISNEY PRINCESS

Chapter 01 Fever: Fan Fashion, Costumes and Revisions of Elsa and Anna Designs

Chapter 02 'Let It Go!': Child Fans, Song and the Frozen Franchise

Chapter 03 'Dream Big, Princess': Disney's Princess Fandom as a Trans-generational, Feminist Fan Space

Chapter 04 That's (Not) My Princess: Representation, Race and (Anti-) fan Activism

Chapter 05 Panel Discussion: The Live Action Mulan (2020) and Disney's Approach to Racial Diversity

INTERLUDE REPRESENTATION, CENSORSHIP AND DISNEY+

Chapter 06 'Please Don't Censor Hamilton!': Disney+, Social Media Fandom and Censorship

Chapter 07 Musings of a Queer Disney Fan

PART 2 THE DISNEY THEME PARKS AND THEIR FANS

Chapter 08 Creativity and Connection: How Disney Parks' Fans Responded During the Coronavirus Closures

Chapter 09 To Act Like a Kid or Not to Act Like a Kid: Disneybounding in the Parks

Fan Appreciation #1 Victoria Wade

Chapter 10 Friends Just Around the Riverbend: Performing Intimacy and Authenticity in Disney Park Character Meets

Chapter 11 Haunted Waters: The Elimination of Liveness in Disney's

Fan Appreciation #2 Shawn Rosell

Chapter 12 From Mickey Waffles to Vegan Samosas Evolving Disney Food Fandoms

Chapter 13 'The Travelling Disney Bear Duffy' and His Surprising Popularity in Japan

Fan Appreciation #3 Chris Nilghe

PART 3 THE BRAND AND ITS FANS - HOW DISNEY RESPONDS TO FANDOM AND MONETIZES FAN LABOUR

Chapter 14 Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust: Disney's Participatory Publics and the Cult of Mouse

Chapter 15 Disney's Social Media Moms

Chapter 16 Fitting Inside the Mouse House: Disney's Experiential Media Aesthetics

Chapter 17 Disney Publishing and the Saturation of the Imaginative Market

Notes on Contributors

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Mittermeier, Sabrina Fan Phenomena: Disney

ISBN:

9781789386790

1789386799

9781789386783

1789386780