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Vol. 68 No. 2 (2025): Disneyization — Culture — Cultural Production (Early View)
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THEME EDITOR: Jarosław Płuciennik, Szymon Szul
MAIN SECTION EDITOR: Anna Zatora

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Published: 2025-10-18

Issue Theme — Articles

  • Disneyfication of Young Adult Literature: Fairy-Tale Retellings from a Postfeminist Perspective

    Weronika Kostecka
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.2/2
  • The First Wave. Some Aspects of “Disneyfication” in the 1930s

    Paweł Sitkiewicz
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.2/3
  • Practising Microutopia: Indigenous Art and Publishing Strategies of Tara Books in India

    Magdalena Sikorska
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.2/4
  • From Disneyization to Netflixification: Algorithms and the Production of Taste

    Miłosz Wojtyna
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.2/18

Issue Theme — Essays

  • Disney Characters in Italian Adult Comics and Disneyization: The Cases of Zerocalcare and Dr. Pira

    Aneta Wielgosz
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.2/5
  • Game, Play, Joy. Why is Tomasz Bąk’s "Playbook" Entertaining?

    Szymon Trusewicz
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.2/6
  • "#NotMyAriel": Tokenism, Representation, and “Race” in Contemporary American Culture

    Antoni Górny
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.2/14

Main Section — Articles

  • Only Cowards and Women Long for Peace. On Adolf Nowaczyński’s Satire "War on War" ("Wojna wojnie")

    Bartłomiej Bielas
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.2/7
  • “As in the Picture.” Sidonia von Borck in the Elżbieta Cherezińska’s and Teresa Bojarska’s Novels

    Julia Dynkowska
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.2/8
  • Behind the Façade: Collapse of the Rural Community Myth in "Broadchurch"

    Beata Kiersnowska
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.2/9

Main Section — Essays

  • The Vickys. A Neo-Victorian Perspective on Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age

    Konrad Zielonka
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.2/12
  • Alcoholic "Homo Necros". Reading "Night Animals" by Patrycja Pustkowiak

    Aleksandra Szymańska-Dańczyszyn
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.2/10
  • The Absence of the Maternal Figure and Its Equivalents in the Poetry of Małgorzata Lebda

    Kinga Borto
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.2/11

Main Section — Reviews

Main Section — Materials to "The Companion of the Literary Genres"

  • Dark academia

    Mikołaj Głos, Kinga Matuszko
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.2/13
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