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  Dance, Girl, Dance!: Performance & Class Mobility in Disney’s Shake It Up

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  Morgan Blue The University of Texas at Austin

  September 11, 2012

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  Dance, Girl, Dance!: Performance & Class Mobility in Disney’s Shake It Up TV Pilots Shake It Up performance girls Disney dance class Curator's Note In the first few minutes of the pilot for Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up, lead characters, Rock ...
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  Gravity Falls as a Transgenerational Cultural Forum

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  Molly Sharp The Ohio State University

  October 10, 2012

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  assume that at least some younger viewers born after the Cold War would not fully understand the ...
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  Inside Out: Collaborative Creativity and the Pixar Braintrust

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  Christopher Holliday King's College London

  April 21, 2014

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  Inside Out: Collaborative Creativity and the Pixar Braintrust Pixar Animation Studios Hollywood cinema Disney corporate creativity computer animation Curator's Note The recent publication of Pixar Animation Studios President Ed Catmull’s Creativity, ...
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  High School for Superheroes and Sidekicks

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  Eleanor Huntington University of Southern California

  December 15, 2014

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  and Jetstream, Will Stronghold begins his first day of high school in a state of panic. Unbeknownst to ...
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  Meet Me At the Purple Wall: The Disney “Lifestyler” Influence on Disney Parks Merchandise

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  Olympia Kiriakou Florida Atlantic University

  March 26, 2018

  gets validated  or, at the very least, publicly acknowledged by Disney. Disney’s vampiric appropriation ...
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  Pervasive Playing Epcot with Kim Possible

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  Bobby Schweizer Texas Tech University

  January 16, 2019

  their Kimm-unicators and begin their treasure hunt. For example, players had to complete five tasks in ...
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  An IMR Exclusive Interview with Disney Producer Brigham Taylor

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  Sky LaRell Anderson Occidental College

  December 02, 2019

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  Curator's Note If you haven’t seen Brigham Taylor’s work, you are at least aware of it: he helped bring ...
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  Disney+: It all adds up

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  Jason Scott Leeds Trinity University

  May 04, 2020

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  Disney+: It all adds up Disney Disney+ Iger franchise Mandalorian Curator's Note Disney+ = Disney + Pixar + Marvel + Star Wars + National Geographic Each branded studio complements each other, aligned around four quadrant, family entertainment but di ...
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  Chihiro Grows Up: Defying the Infantilization of the Disney Princess

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  Ryan Banfi New York University

  October 06, 2020

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  Chihiro Grows Up: Defying the Infantilization of the Disney Princess Studio Ghibli Spirited Away Beauty and the Beast Disney Heroine HBO Max Curator's Note Studio Ghibli, the most prominent animation studio in Japan, has become a notable organization ...
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  No Questions Asked

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  J.D. Connor USC School of Cinematic Arts

  October 21, 2020

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  workers. “Team,” Josh D’Amaro begins his letter to people who no longer are. [6] News coverage emphasizes ...