Disney Princesses and Tween Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disney Princesses and Tween Identity write by Anna Zsubori. This book was released on 2024-05-15. Disney Princesses and Tween Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Disney Princesses and Tween Identity: The Franchise in Illiberal Hungary examines how tweens in illiberal Hungary construct verbal and visual identities through engagement with Disney princess animations. Presenting and analyzing ethnographic research in the form of interviews with Hungarian tweens around the time of the populist government’s winning the general elections in 2018, Anna Zsubori reveals the importance of social and cultural context in establishing the Disney princess phenomenon as a heterogeneous cultural force. The ambivalent and sometimes even contradictory ideas of identity expressed by the tweens highlight the role that diverse audiences, local negotiations, and dynamic discourses play in the reception of the Disney princess animations. Combining thematic and semiotic textual analyses of the conversations, tweens’ drawings and building blocks, and broader contextual examinations of the sessions with Hungarian children, this book offers original contributions on both theoretical and methodological levels.
Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity
Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity write by Jennifer A. Kokai. This book was released on 2024-08-26. Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Writing in a time of heightened political anxiety–and when accusations of nationalism, authoritarianism, and proto-fascism have increasingly divided Americans into factions– the authors use their influential performance studies-based ‘tourist as actor’ framework to unpack the ways that Disney parks and their guests co-create performance of implicit Americanness in the 21st century. This book argues that the roles that guests choose to perform-- accepting, declining, negotiating, or overwriting scripts offered to them by the Disney theme park experience-- ultimately reveals much about the nature of the contemporary United States. Focusing primarily on Walt Disney World in Florida, and using case studies on music, geography and ecology, sports, families, and politics, these chapters illuminate the always complicated and often contradictory presentations and performances of America within Disney parks in the deeply contested twenty-first century.
The Disney Princess Phenomenon
The Disney Princess Phenomenon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Disney Princess Phenomenon write by Robyn Muir. This book was released on 2023-06. The Disney Princess Phenomenon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Disney Princesses are a billion-dollar industry, known and loved by children across the globe. Robyn Muir provides an exploratory and holistic examination of this worldwide commercial and cultural phenomenon in its key representations: films, merchandising and marketing, and park experiences. Muir highlights the messages and images of femininity found within the Disney Princess canon and provides a rigorous and innovative methodology for analysing gender in media. Including an in-depth examination of each princess film from the last 83 years, the book provides a lens through which to view and understand how Disney Princesses have contributed to the depiction of femininity within popular culture.
The Cultural Legacy of Disney
The Cultural Legacy of Disney - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cultural Legacy of Disney write by Robyn Muir. This book was released on 2024-08-06. The Cultural Legacy of Disney available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book critically engages with the Walt Disney Company as a global media conglomerate as they mark their 100th year of business. It reflects on and looks forward to the past, present and future of the company and the scholarly engagement surrounding it through three key areas: Disney as a Company, Disney’s Representations, and Relating to Disney. ‘Disney as a Company’ identifies the corporate and management cultural changes over Disney’s 100-year history, with contributors examining Disney’s transnational media influence, changes in management strategy, and Disney’s recent transmedia venture: Disney+. ‘Disney’s Representations’ features chapters critically engaging with gender, disability, and iconic characters that imply cultural change. ‘Relating to Disney’ embodies the crucial work examining how audiences engage with Disney, with contributors exploring fashion, Disney Fandom and identity, and how people engage with the space of the Parks. This edited collection explores the newer additions to the company, but also reflects on the company’s past over its 100 years. The chapters provide a diverse examination of the many facets of one of the most successful global media conglomerates, providing scholars, students, and interested audiences a global and interdisciplinary snapshot of the Walt Disney Company at 100 years.
Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films
Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films write by Kellie Deys. This book was released on 2021-11-04. Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films contributes to an essential, ongoing conversation about how power dynamics are questioned, reinforced, and disrupted in the stories Disney tells. Whether these films challenge or perpetuate traditional structures (or do both), their considerable influence warrants careful examination. This collection addresses the vast reach of the Disneyverse, contextualizing its films within larger conversations about power relations. The depictions of surveillance, racial segregation, othering, and ableism represent real issues that impact people and their lived experiences. Unfortunately, storytellers often oversimplify or mischaracterize complex matters on screen. To counter this, contributors investigate these unspoken and sometimes unintended meanings. By applying the lenses of various theoretical approaches, including ecofeminism, critiques of exceptionalism, and gender, queer, and disability studies, authors uncover underlying ideologies. These discussions help readers understand how Disney’s output both reflects and impacts contemporary cultural conditions.
