User:CobyCat/Sandbox
Short drafts to expand later.
Disney Parks
Disney's parks have their own fandom.
A common complaint among parks fans is the company's current stronger focus on representing their intellectual properties in the parks, instead of original creations.
Disney as religion
Religious studies scholar Robert Orsi considers religion “a network of relationships between heaven and earth involving people of all ages as well as the different sacred figures they hold dear” and that religious practices “intensify joy and confront suffering.”[1] According to religious studies professor Jodi Eichler-Levine, this applies what Disney fans experience in parks and on TV. She also notes that scholars has been looking into the relation between Disney and religion since at least the 1980s.[2]
Religion and Fandom
Link to:
- Religion in fan fiction -- essential or sacrilege?
- Christianity and Fandom
- Judaism and Fandom
- Pop Culture Paganism
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Some Hobby Drama stuff that I might end up using as a source:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/rge9nu/disney_theme_parks_the_closure_of_mr_toads_wild/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/t00tcx/western_animation_disney_the_world_of_chip_n_dale/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/hg9vbo/italian_disney_comics_mickey_mouse_marries_or_the/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/ewm0ty/italian_disney_comics_the_frittolata_saga_or_how/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/gd06k3/disney_pins_much_ado_about_a_database_or_who_knew/
Also: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disneyland-social-clubs-20180209-story.html
Leonard Maltin
Reading Maltin's more 2021 book Star Struck. Lots of anecdotes there as his initially fannish origins.
One day a colorful magazine called Famous Monsters of Filmland beckoned to me. Famous Monsters and its editor, Forrest J. Ackerman, introduced me and a generation of baby boomers (including Stephen King and Steven Spielberg) to the history of horror and fantasy films. Rare photos of Lon Chaney, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and others fired my imagination and my desire to see these tantalizing movies. Famous Monsters also changed my life. In one issue Forry invited a man named Oscar Estes, Jr., to review a handful of fanzines, amateur publications whose existence would otherwise have remained unknown to me. Two of them sounded especially interesting: The 8mm Collector, published by Samuel K. Rubin in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Film Fan Monthly, which Daryl Davy published in Vancouver, British Columbia.Maltin, Starstruck, chapter "My Fanzine and My Future Wife"