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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