Fan Phenomena: Disney
Fan Phenomena: Disney (Book)
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.
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Dr Sabrina Mittermeier is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in American cultural history at the University of Kassel, Germany, the author of A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks (Intellect 2021), and the co-editor of Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery (2020), as well as The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek (2022).
Introduction – Sabrina Mittermeier
Part 1: Diversity and the Disney Princess
- Frozen Fever: Fan Fashion, Costumes, and Revisions of Elsa and Anna Designs – Nicole Lamerichs
- ‘Let It Go!’: Child Fans, Song, and the Frozen Franchise – Ryan Bunch
- “Dream Big, Princess”: Disney’s Princess Fandom as a Trans-generational, Feminist Fan Space – Tracey Mollet
- That’s (Not) My Princess: Representation, Race, and (Anti-)Fan Activism – Christina Wurst
- Panel Discussion: The Live Action Mulan (2020) and Disney’s Approach to Racial Diversity – Michelle Anya Anjirbag, Bertha Chin & Jingan Young
Interlude: Representation, Censorship and Disney+
- “Please don’t censor Hamilton!”: Disney+, Social Media Fandom, and Censorship – Olympia Kiriakou
- Musings of a Queer Disney Fan – Sabrina Mittermeier
Part 2: The Disney Theme Parks and Their Fans
- Creativity and Connection: How Disney Parks’ Fans Responded During the Coronavirus Closures – Rebecca Williams
- To Act Like a Kid or Not to Act Like a Kid: Disneybounding in the Parks – Rebecca Rowe
Fan Appreciation: Victoria Wade
- Friends Just Around the Riverbend: Performing Intimacy and Authenticity in Disney Park Character Meets – Victoria Pettersen Lantz
Fan Appreciation: Shawn Rosell
- Haunted Waters: The Elimination of Liveness in Disney’s Rivers of Light – Tom Robson
- From Mickey Waffles to Vegan Samosas: Evolving Disney Food Fandoms – Jennifer A. Kokai
- The Traveling Disney Bear ‘Duffy’ and His Surprising Popularity in Japan – Katharina Hülsmann & Timo Thelen
Fan Appreciaton: Chris Nilghe
Part 3: The Brand and its Fans – How Disney Responds to Fandom and Monetizes Fan Labor
- Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust: Disney’s Participatory Publics – Amber L. Hutchins
- Disney's Social Media Moms – Kylie Torres
- Fitting Inside the Mouse House – Disney’s Experiential Media Aesthetics – Chris Comerford
- Disney Publishing and the Saturation of the Imaginative Market – Michelle Anya Anjirbag
