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Call for Papers
Edited Volume: /Mouse TV: The History, Economics, and Politics of Disney
Channel/
Editors: Sarah Nilsen (University of Vermont) and Sarah E. Turner
(University of Vermont)
Disney Channel is the #1 children's television network today
outperforming Nickelodeon by double digits.Since its launch thirty years
ago, Disney Channel has transformed the landscape of children's media
production, and its cultural influence both nationally and globally is
unprecedented.Yet scholars have failed to engage with this pre-eminent
force in children's broadcasting, and this collection will remedy this
void by being the first major study of Disney Channel.The purpose of
*/Mouse TV/* is to complicate and expand the field of Disney studies by
incorporating a broader range of theoretical and methodological
approaches.Critical Disney scholarship is dominated by text based,
qualitative analyses as exemplified in Henry Giroux's /The Mouse that
Roared /(1999) and Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, and Laura Sells's /From
Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture/
(1995).Thisscholarship has tended to be unilaterally critical of the
studio and has relied heavily on claims of the Disneyfication of
society, yet the broad generalizations of much of this work have tended
to lack empirical evidence and historical contextualization to support
these readings.
We are interested in original articles that will advance the field of
Disney studies, contemporary children's media culture, and the cable
television industry.
Possible topics might include:
·socio-cultural and historical approaches
·ethnographic studies
·political economies
·sociology and television
·industry and institutional approaches
·television programming
·gender and sexuality
·race and ethnicity
·audiences and spectatorship
Please send abstracts of 500 words to Sarah Nilsen
([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>_) and Sarah E.
Turner ([log in to unmask]) by August 15, 2014.Final essays will be due
December 30, 2014.Essays should be 6,000-8,000 words in length and
should follow MLA guidelines for citation and documentation.
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Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the
University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu
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