[csaa-forum] Research talk: Anna Zsubori (Loughborough U) Tweens’ conceptualisation of gender through Disney Princesses in ‘illiberal’ Hungary

Rosemary Overell rosemary.overell at otago.ac.nz
Tue Sep 10 10:12:30 ACST 2024


Kia ora

Please do join us for a research talk by Dr Anna Zsubori of Loughborough University next Tuesday 17th September at 10am NZT in Burns 4 and on Zoom (register for Zoom link here: https://forms.gle/QqqWHhJjdb3hbmix6).

All welcome!

Title:
Marginalised in a post-socialist regime: Tweens’ conceptualisation of gender through Disney Princesses and LGBTQ+ people’s reactions to being framed as threat in the anti-gender, anti-LGBTQ+ ‘illiberal’ Hungary

This interdisciplinary talk, which is a smaller slice of two larger bodies of work, focuses on Hungarian tweenagers’ negotiation of gender as well as on LGBTQ+ people use of social media, while placing the subject matters within the wide tapestry of academic work in a variety of disciplines, namely communication, cultural, film, gender and tweenhood studies on the one hand, and on the other, engaging in audience research with Hungarian tweens and LGBTQ+ members. The primary lens through which the concept of ‘the’ princess is investigated is, including, but not limited to, Disney Princesses, which resulted in bringing new insights into the employed theoretical frameworks, while critically examining the complexities of the academically-overlooked Princess Phenomenon. This talk includes a discussion of the links between fairy tales and animation, as well as an overview of child audience research scholarship to date. To firmly contextualise the subject matter of this work, this talk offers a brief historical, social, and political overview of present-day Hungary before it moves onto the final analysis of Hungarian children’s notions of gender by discussing their ideas about the concept of ‘the’ princess. Lastly, there is a short overview of some early findings about the Hungarian paedophile pardon scandal and LGBTQ+ people’s reactions to being framed as a threat under the ‘illiberal’ regime.

Dr Anna Zsubori<https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/communication-media/staff/anna-zsubori/> is a media sociologist and film studies scholar, presently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Loughborough University. She was also a YECREA representative to the Audience and Reception Studies section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (2016-2021). Dr Zsubori specialises in conducting audience research with marginalised and vulnerable participants in Central and Eastern Europe. Her research explores the heterogeneity of Hungarian tween audiences through the participants’ ambivalent and sometimes even contradictory ideas about their identity, while her latest project, funded by the British Academy, examines social media usage among Hungarian LGBTQ+ citizens. Dr Zsubori’s articles have been published in prestigious journals such as the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Journal of Children and Media and Studies in Eastern European Cinema. Her first monograph, Disney Princesses and Tween Identity: The Franchise in Illiberal Hungary, was published by Lexington Books and came out in May 2024.

Ngā mihi

Rosie.

Rosemary Overell<https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html>
Senior Lecturer
Media, Film & Communication Programme
The University of Otago
Dunedin
New Zealand
9054

Latest publications:
Overell, R. (2024). ‘Don’t Worry Darling: The anxious question of what women want after #MeToo’. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00461-5
Millar, I., Nicholls, B., Overell, R., & Tutt, D. (2023). Power and politics in Adam Curtis' Can't get you out of my head: An emotional history of the modern world. In C. Owens & S. Meehan O'Callaghan (Eds.), Psychoanalysis and the small screen: The year the cinemas closed<https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-the-Small-Screen-The-Year-the-Cinemas-Closed/Owens-OCallaghan/p/book/9781032223223>. (pp. 163-189). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Overell, R. (2022). Methodological Masturbation<https://lackorg.com/2022/08/26/methodological-masturbation/>. LACK: punctual musings. 26th August.

Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.co.nz/citations?user=ZW7oyEAAAAAJ&hl=en>
LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemary-overell-047786222>



Rosemary Overell<https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html>
Senior Lecturer
Media, Film & Communication Programme
The University of Otago
Dunedin
New Zealand
9054

Latest publications:
Overell, R. (2024). ‘Don’t Worry Darling: The anxious question of what women want after #MeToo’. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00461-5
Millar, I., Nicholls, B., Overell, R., & Tutt, D. (2023). Power and politics in Adam Curtis' Can't get you out of my head: An emotional history of the modern world. In C. Owens & S. Meehan O'Callaghan (Eds.), Psychoanalysis and the small screen: The year the cinemas closed<https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-the-Small-Screen-The-Year-the-Cinemas-Closed/Owens-OCallaghan/p/book/9781032223223>. (pp. 163-189). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Overell, R. (2022). Methodological Masturbation<https://lackorg.com/2022/08/26/methodological-masturbation/>. LACK: punctual musings. 26th August.

Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.co.nz/citations?user=ZW7oyEAAAAAJ&hl=en>
LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemary-overell-047786222>



Rosemary Overell<https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html>
Senior Lecturer
Media, Film & Communication Programme
The University of Otago
Dunedin
New Zealand
9054

Latest publications:
Overell, R. (2024). ‘Don’t Worry Darling: The anxious question of what women want after #MeToo’. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00461-5
Millar, I., Nicholls, B., Overell, R., & Tutt, D. (2023). Power and politics in Adam Curtis' Can't get you out of my head: An emotional history of the modern world. In C. Owens & S. Meehan O'Callaghan (Eds.), Psychoanalysis and the small screen: The year the cinemas closed<https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-the-Small-Screen-The-Year-the-Cinemas-Closed/Owens-OCallaghan/p/book/9781032223223>. (pp. 163-189). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Overell, R. (2022). Methodological Masturbation<https://lackorg.com/2022/08/26/methodological-masturbation/>. LACK: punctual musings. 26th August.

Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.co.nz/citations?user=ZW7oyEAAAAAJ&hl=en>
LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemary-overell-047786222>

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