The Disneyfication of Pop
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9798765100035 (ISBN)
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In the first-ever book of its kind, Katie Kapurch reveals unseen relationships between the Walt Disney Company and pop icons. Much like the fairy-tale media they interpolate and inspire, Disneyfied artists create and market music that is thrilling and comforting, sexy and safe, controlled and consoling.
As if dusted with the Studios’ own sparkle, the Beatles, Beyoncé, and Swift use Disney techniques to become “princely auteurs” and “princesses adored.” Occupying two roles at once, the artist is a hero worth imitating and a damsel deserving attention and rescue. These melodramatic dynamics let audiences see themselves reflected in pop superstars, whose dreamworlds are safe spaces as protected and storied as Sleeping Beauty's castle.
Disney’s looking glass offers new ways of seeing the Beatles, Beyoncé, and Swift and uncovers unprecedented links between them, too. While these phenomena exemplify Disneyfied pop, Kapurch’s insights have wide-ranging applications to mediated wonderlands and the engagements they demand throughout the broader pop cultural landscape.
Katie Kapurch is Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. Her previous books include Blackbird: How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being—and Sang Back to Them Ever After (2023) and Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century: Jane Eyre, Twilight, and the Mode of Excess in Popular Girl Culture (2016).
Introduction: Disney Plus Pop and/as the Disney Mirror
1. Disney Mythmaking: Sparkle and Space, Eras and Eternal Returns in Disney Plus Pop
2. The Disney Version: Re-Innovating the Disneyfied Fairy Tale in Disney Plus Pop
3. Disney Melodrama: A Drama Set to Music, Music Set to Drama in Disney Plus Pop
4. The Disney Brain: The Dreamworld of the Princely Auteur, the Princess Adored, and the Fan Activist in Disney Plus Pop
5. Disney Icons and Backstage Passes: Cute-Sexy Characters and the Disneyfied Studio in Disney Plus Pop
6. The Disney Vault: Safe Spaces and the Distribution of Disney Plus Pop
7: The Disney Doll Finale: Housewives, Barbie, and Brand Collaborations in Disney Plus Pop Ever After
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| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.5.2026 |
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| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9798765100035 / 9798765100035 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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