Recasting the Disney Princess in an Era of New Media and Social Movements

Herausgeber: Roberts, Shearon

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection analyzes the way that the Walt Disney Company has co-opted contemporary social discourse and studies how the current Disney era reflects changes in a global society where audiences are empowered by new media and social justice movements.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781793604033
• ISBN-10: 1793604037
• Artikelnr.: 63301314

Autorenporträt

Shearon Roberts is assistant professor of mass communication and a faculty member in African American and diaspora studies at Xavier University of Louisiana.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Rebranding the Disney Princess
Chapter One: Recasting the Disney Princess in an Era of New Media and
Social Movements
Shearon Roberts
Chapter Two: Diversity Sells: The Dollars and Cents of Woke Rebranding
Shaniece B. Bickham and Shearon Roberts
Chapter Three: Sofia the First: A Princess Life Fit for a Preschool
Audience
Sarah Maben
Chapter Four: From Princess to Heroine: Expanding Representations of Girls
and Women
Jana Thomas and Holly Speck
Chapter Five: Pop, Hip-Hop, and the Hamiltonization of the Disney
Soundtrack
Daron Roberts and Turon Nicholas
Part II: Diversifying the Disney Princess
Chapter Six: Elena of Avalor and Mama Coco: Latina Sheroes and Knowledge
Keepers
Alberto Rodriguez and Veronica N. Durant
Chapter Seven: #NolaBorn: Tiana and the Road Home for New Orleans Residents
Sheryl Kennedy Haydel
Chapter Eight: Moana: The Daughter of the Chief and Polynesian
(in)Visibility
Jenny Banh
Chapter Nine: #MakeMulanRight: Retracing the Genealogy of Mulan from
Ancient Chinese Tale to Disney Classic.
Jenny Banh
Chapter Ten: Pocahontas: Digital Coloniality, Coercive Fiction, and
"Renewing" Western Hegemonic Power.
Leece Lee-Oliver
Chapter Eleven: A Whole New World: Gender Norms, Islamophobia and
Orientalism
Krystal Ghisyawan
Part III: Deconstructing Princess Narratives
Chapter Twelve: Belle: Beyond the Classic Story for the Modern Audience
Rebecca Weidman-Winter
Chapter Thirteen: "Let it Go" as Radical Mantra: Subverting the Princess
Narrative in Frozen
Susanne R. Hackett
Chapter Fourteen: Shuri of Wakanda, The People's Princess
Charity Clay
Chapter Fifteen: Maleficent: Rape, Wrath, and the Feminine Divine
Sarah A. Clunis
Part IV: Embedding Social Discourse around the Disney Heroine
Chapter Sixteen: Disney's Social Consciousness: Explaining
#BlackLivesMatter through Zootopia
Ahli Chatters and Shearon Roberts
Chapter Seventeen: "It's Good to Be Bad": Marginalization and Othering in
the Descendants Films
Shearon Roberts
Chapter Eighteen: No Capes Needed: The Plight of Super Moms
Alexis Woods Barr
Chapter Nineteen: The Women of Wakanda: Black Beauty and Casting
Abeo Jackson
Chapter Twenty: Culture Wars and the Politics of Finding Dory
Prairie Parnell
Epilogue: Notes from Behind the Camera from a Father of Two Daughters
Varion Laurent