Fan Phenomena: Disney collects essays on Disney fans, spanning a variety of media (such as film, television, novels, stage productions and theme parks) and different fannish approaches (cosplay, fan art), as well as the company’s reactions to them.
It is a timely intervention that deals with crucial issues such as race and racism within the Disney fandom and in Disney texts, the role of queerness, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the advent of the streaming service Disney+.
The authors come from variety of disciplines, such as cultural and media studies, marketing and communications, cultural history or theatre and performance studies, and include both leading experts in fan and Disney studies, as well as emerging voices in these fields, plus interviews with fan practitioners.
It will be popular with scholars of cultural studies, cultural history, media studies, fan studies; Disney fans, and students at any level
Daftar Isi
Introduction – Sabrina Mittermeier
Part 1: Diversity and the Disney Princess
Interlude: Representation, Censorship and Disney+
Part 2: The Disney Theme Parks and Their Fans
Fan Appreciation: Victoria Wade
Fan Appreciation: Shawn Rosell
Fan Appreciaton: Chris Nilghe
Part 3: The Brand and its Fans – How Disney Responds to Fandom and Monetizes Fan Labor
Tentang Penulis
Sabrina Mittermeier is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in British and North American history at the University of Kassel, Germany. She is the author of A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks: Middle-Class Kingdoms (Intellect and University of Chicago Press, 2021), the (co-)editor of Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery (Liverpool University Press, 2020), The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek (Routledge, 2022) and Fan Phenomena: Disney (Intellect, 2023). Her research on theme parks, fan tourism, film and television has also been published in several volumes and journals, such as The Journal of Popular Culture, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture and Science Fiction Film and Television. She is currently working on a second book on Unmade Queer Television and plans on hosting a podcast on the television series Ted Lasso in 2022.
Contact: Universität Kassel, Fachbereich 05 Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Nora-Platiel-Str. 1, 34109 Kassel, Germany.
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