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The Inaugural Issue of International Journal of Disney Studies is out now and free to access!

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Aims & Scope

The International Journal of Disney Studies examines the Walt Disney Company, an international media conglomerate that impacts our global culture. This international, peer-reviewed journal draws from a variety of academic and industrial lenses, perspectives, methods and fields, while providing a space for scholars to present new research, review current research and comment on wider Disney commodities.

Twitter: @IJDisneyStudies

IJDS is affiliated with the Disney, Culture & Society Research Network and supported by Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Issue 1.1

Editorial

Welcome to the International Journal of Disney Studies

ROBYN MUIR AND REBECCA ROWE

Articles

Conservatives watch cartoons: The rise of Disney, the right and cultural criticism in the 1990s

ALEX PINELLI

Re-imaging empowered princesshood against the rise of the fourth-wave feminism: A thematic study of Disney’s princess live-action remakes

CAROLINE YIQIAN WANG

‘We’re not quite there yet… but we will be’: Identifying shifts in the Walt Disney Company’s LGBTQ+ representation