Disney Channel Stars Annual 2011
Disney Channel Stars Annual 2011

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Publisher: Egmont Childrens Books

Published: 2010-08

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9781405252447

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"Hannah Montana" is a worldwide phenomenon. "Hannah Montana" airs on the Disney Channel regularly, sometimes as often as 9 times a day. "Hannah Montana: The Movie", Hannah's first full length feature film was released in the UK in May 2009 grossing over $150 million worldwide. "JONAS" won the breakout category in the 2009 Teen Choice Awards. After the success of the first series of "JONAS" on Disney Channel a second series is now in the making due to air in summer 2010. "Wizards of Waverly Place" is an Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel series which premiered in October 2007, and is now in its 3rd series. "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" was the Disney Channel's second most-viewed movie premiere ever. "Sonny with a Chance" is the Disney Channel's hit new comedy show. The first episode drew a total of 4.1 million viewers. The second series is already in the making. This star-studded "Disney Channel Stars Annual 2011" is packed with stories, activities and puzzles. Pick up style tips from "Hannah Montana", race "JONAS" to their gig, learn some magic tricks from "The Wizards of Waverly Place" and laugh with Sonny Munroe and the cast of "So Random"! With so many stars in one annual, this is a hot title not to be missed!

Girlhood on Disney Channel
Girlhood on Disney Channel

Author: Morgan Genevieve Blue

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-03-03

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1317365062

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Since the early 2000s, Disney Channel has been dominated by original live-action programming popular among tween girls. The shows’ successes rely not only on their popularity among girl audiences, but also on the development of star personae by girl performers, such as Raven-Symoné, Miley Cyrus, and Selena Gomez. In addition, these programs and their performers have spawned lucrative media and merchandising franchises for the Walt Disney Company. This book includes analyses of this Disney Channel programming, as well as Disney corporate reports and executive statements, together with Disney Channel stars’ performances, promotional appearances, media production, philanthropic efforts, and entrepreneurism. Analyzing these texts, performances, activities, and personae, it considers the ways in which they reproduce celebrity, visibility, and feminine performativity as central to successful twenty-first century girlhood.

Disney High
Disney High

Author: Ashley Spencer

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2024-09-24

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1250283469

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The first unauthorized look at the inner workings—and ultimate breakdown—of the Disney Channel machine For many kids growing up in the 2000s, there was no cultural touchstone more powerful than Disney Channel, the most-watched cable channel in primetime at its peak. Today, it might best be known for introducing the world to talents like Hilary Duff, Raven-Symoné, Zac Efron, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, the Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, and Zendaya. It wasn't always destined for greatness: when The Disney Channel launched in 1983, it was a forgotten stepchild within the Walt Disney Company, forever in the shadow of Disney’s more profitable movies and theme parks. But after letting the stars of their Mickey Mouse Club revival—among them Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, and Ryan Gosling—slip through their fingers, Disney Channel reinvented itself as a powerhouse tween network. In the new millennium, it churned out billions of dollars in original content and triple-threat stars whose careers were almost entirely controlled by the corporation. Suddenly, everyone wanted a piece of the pie—and there were constant clashes between the studio, network, labels, and creatives as Disney Channel became a pressure cooker of perfection for its stars. From private feuds and on-set disasters, to fanfare that swept the nation and the realities of child stardom, culture journalist Ashley Spencer offers the inside story of the heyday of TV’s House of Mouse, featuring hundreds of exclusive new interviews with former Disney executives, creatives, and celebrities to explore the highs, lows, and everything in between.

A Companion to Media Authorship
A Companion to Media Authorship

Author: Jonathan Gray

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-02-12

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 111849525X

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A Companion to Media Authorship “Gray and Johnson have brought together a stellar group of authors whose works deftly explicate the complexities of negotiating ‘authorship’ across a range of cultural production sites. This definitive collection is an important and long-overdue contribution to contemporary media studies.” Serra Tinic, author of On Location: Canada’s Television Industry in a Global Market “Wide-ranging and global, historical and contemporary, brimming with insights enlarging our understanding of media production and reception, this book is an important contribution to the study of authorship.” Michael Z. Newman, author of Indie: An American Film Culture While the idea of authorship has transcended the literary to play a meaningful role in the cultures of film, television, games, comics, and other emerging digital forms, our understanding of it is still too often limited to assumptions about solitary geniuses and individual creative expression. A Companion to Media Authorship is a ground-breaking collection that reframes media authorship as a question of culture in which authorship is as much a construction tied to authority and power as it is a constructive and creative force of its own. Gathering together the insights of leading media scholars and practitioners, 28 original chapters map the field of authorship in a cutting-edge, multi-perspective, and truly authoritative manner. The contributors develop new and innovative ways of thinking about the practices, attributions, and meanings of authorship. They situate and examine authorship within collaborative models of industrial production, socially networked media platforms, globally diverse traditions of creativity, complex consumption practices, and a host of institutional and social contexts. Together, the essays provide the definitive study on the subject by demonstrating that authorship is a field in which media culture can be transformed, revitalized, and reimagined.

Disney Channel’s Extraordinary Girls
Disney Channel’s Extraordinary Girls

Author: Christina H. Hodel

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2024-03-12

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1666925470

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Between 2001–2011, Disney Channel produced several sitcoms aimed at tweens that featured female protagonists with extraordinary abilities (e.g., celebrity and super/magical powers). In this book, Christina H. Hodel argues that, while male counterparts in similar programs openly displayed their extraordinariness, the female characters in these programs were often forced into hiding and secrecy, which significantly diminished their agency. She analyzes sitcom episodes, commentary in magazine articles, and web-based discussions of these series to examine how they portrayed female youths and the impact it had on its adolescent viewers. Combining close readings of dialogue and action with socioeconomic and historical contextual insights, Hodel sheds new light on the attitudes of the creators of these programs (mostly white, middle-aged, Western, heterosexual males) and the long-term impact on women today. Ultimately, her analysis shows, these blockbuster sitcoms reveal that despite Disney’s progress toward creating empowered girls, the network was—and still is—locked into tradition. This book is of interest to scholars of Disney studies, cultural studies, television studies, and gender studies.

Disney Channel Tween Programming
Disney Channel Tween Programming

Author: Christopher E. Bell

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-08-28

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1476639639

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Much has been written about the Walt Disney Company's productions, but the focus has largely been on animation and feature film created by Disney. In this essay collection, the attention is turned to The Disney Channel and the programs it presents for a largely tween audience. Since its emergence as a market category in the 1980s, the tween demographic has commanded purchasing power and cultural influence, and the impressionability and social development of the age group makes it an important range of people to study. Presenting both a groundbreaking view of The Disney Channel's programming by the numbers and a deep focus on many of the best-known programs and characters of the 2000s--shows like The Wizards of Waverly Place, That's So Raven and Hannah Montana--this collection asks the simple questions, "What does The Disney Channel Universe look and sound like? Who are the stories about? Who matters on The Disney Channel?"