Part 1. Diversity and the Disney Princess -- Frozen Fever: Fan Fashion, Costumes and Revisions of Elsa and Anna Designs -- 'Let It Go!': Child Fans, Song and the Frozen Franchise -- 'Dream Big, Princess': Disney's Princess Fandom as a Trans-generational, Feminist Fan Space -- That's (Not) My Princess: Representation, Race and (Anti-)fan Activism -- Panel Discussion: The Live Action Mulan (2020) and Disney's Approach to Racial Diversity -- Interlude Representation, Censorship and Disney+ -- 'Please Don't Censor Hamilton!': Disney+, Social Media Fandom and Censorship -- Musings of a Queer Disney Fan -- Fan Appreciation -- Victoria Wade -- Shawn Rosell -- Chris Nilghe -- Part 2. The Disney Theme Parks and their Fans -- Creativity and Connection: How Disney Parks' Fans Responded During the Coronavirus Closures -- To Act Like a Kid or Not to Act Like a Kid: Disneybounding in the Parks -- Friends Just Around the Riverbend: Performing Intimacy and Authenticity in Disney Park Character Meets -- Haunted Waters: The Elimination of Liveness in Disney's Rivers of Light -- From Mickey Waffles to Vegan Samosas: Evolving Disney Food Fandoms -- 'The Travelling Disney Bear Duffy' and His Surprising Popularity in Japan -- Part 3. The Brand and its Fans - How Disney Responds to Random and Monetizes Fan Labour -- Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust: Disney's Participatory Publics and the Cult of Mouse -- Disney's Social Media Moms -- Fitting inside the Mouse House: Disney's Experiential Media Aesthetics -- Disney Publishing and the Saturation of the Imaginative Market.
Summary:
This collection analyzes the fandom of Disney brands across a variety of media including film, television, novels, stage productions and theme parks. It showcases fan engagement such as cosplay, fan art and on social media, as well as the company's reaction to it. Further, the volume deals with crucial issues - race and racism, the role of queerness, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the advent of the streaming service Disney+ - within the Disney fandom and in Disney texts. The contributors come from a variety of disciplines including cultural and media studies, marketing and communications, cultural history, theatre and performance studies and more. In addition to interviews with fan practitioners, the chapters feature both leading experts in fan and Disney studies alongside emerging voices in these fields. A vital new addition to the growing subdiscipline of fan studies, it will be popular with scholars of cultural studies, cultural history and media studies.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.