Although the terms Disneyization or Disneyification in the modern sense were not yet used in the 1930s, when Walt Disney was still a young and independent filmmaker, the beginnings of the Disneyfication of mass culture and ...

This text attempts to provide a synthetic overview of the phenomena of Disneyization and Disneyfication in the context of the transformations occurring in the functioning of art worlds in the 20th and 21st centuries. The ...

This article explores the publishing practices of the Chennai-based independent publisher Tara Books as a unique form of “publishing microutopia” that promotes indigenous art from India. Drawing on Ewa Domańska’s concept ...

The article discusses the recent controversy surrounding the casting of a Black actress in the lead role in the live-action remake of the Disney classic The Little Mermaid (2023), placing this event in the context of the ...

In this article, I analyze the use of characters from Disney comics and films for children in contemporary Italian comics for the adult public by two authors: Zerocalcare and Dr. Pira. I aim to describe the purposes of the ...

This article offers a reading of Patrycja Pustkowiak’s novel Night Animals through the lenses of necroperformance and the ontology of the dead body. The protagonist, Tamara Mortus, is interpreted as a literary embodiment ...

The article discusses the process of disintegration of a small-town community in the fictional town of Broadchurch, depicted in the first series of a British crime drama under the same title. Although the complete Broadchurch ...

The subject of the article is the matter of the absence of the maternal figure in Małgorzata Lebda’s poetry and its influence on the construction of the lyrical persona. In my analyses, I focus on the representation of the ...