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Author:	Katie Kapurch
Title:	Disney Plus Beatles
Subtitle:	Fab Four Fairy Tales In The Production And Reception Of 21st Century American Pop
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Country:	USA
Date:	Aug 2025
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Music
ISBN13 / Barcode:	9798765100035
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Price Guide:	$102
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256 pages. Book dimensions: 15.24 cms x 2.54 cms x 22.86 cms.

From the publisher's website on 28 January 2024:

Disney Plus Beatles shatters the mirror holding the Beatles' carefully crafted image & reconstructs the looking glass to reveal its reflecting echoes today. This book explains how Disney-via the Beatles-shapes the production and reception of 21st century American pop music. It probes Disney's & the Beatles' functions as cultural institutions, an approach that considers gendered, sexual, racial, & other implications of these joined phenomena in the age of streaming platforms like Disney+.

After uncovering Disney tropes in visual aesthetics & storytelling related to the Fab Four, the book considers U.S. artists with controlling visions for their multiplatform media, specifically Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, and Lil Nas X. As “princely” auteurs, the pop musicians in this book are perceived as self-made innovators while appearing to create safe spaces for audiences. These Disney dynamics-impressive prince/adorable princess-cultivate appeal, especially among fans who feel deeply personal relationships with these musical phenomena. Disney Plus Beatles offers an incisive look at the cultivation and collaboration of celebrity persona and corporate production.

Table of Contents
Part 1: Disney Plus the Beatles
1. Walt Disney's 'The Beatles': Auteurs of Girl Culture in the 1960s
2. The Beatles' Dollhouse: Romancing Cute Toys and Safe Spaces from Anthology to Get Back
Part 2: 21st Century Pop in the Age of Disney+
3. Beyoncé's Once and Future Politics: Black Is King, Beyoncé is Queen
4. Lana Del Rey's Melodrama: Once Upon a California Girl's Dream
5. Taylor Swift's Romantic Nostalgia: A Girl Boss's Folklore
6. Lil Nas X's Fairy-Tale Fantasy: A New Prince on Horseback
Conclusion: The Pleasure Dome

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