Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity write by Jennifer A. Kokai. This book was released on 2024-09-15. Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Writing in a time of heightened political anxiety–and when accusations of nationalism, authoritarianism, and proto-fascism have increasingly divided Americans into factions– the authors use their influential performance studies-based ‘tourist as actor’ framework to unpack the ways that Disney parks and their guests co-create performance of implicit Americanness in the 21st century. This book argues that the roles that guests choose to perform-- accepting, declining, negotiating, or overwriting scripts offered to them by the Disney theme park experience-- ultimately reveals much about the nature of the contemporary United States. Focusing primarily on Walt Disney World in Florida, and using case studies on music, geography and ecology, sports, families, and politics, these chapters illuminate the always complicated and often contradictory presentations and performances of America within Disney parks in the deeply contested twenty-first century.
Disney Theme Parks and America’s National Narratives
Disney Theme Parks and America’s National Narratives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disney Theme Parks and America’s National Narratives write by Bethanee Bemis. This book was released on 2022-12-27. Disney Theme Parks and America’s National Narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Disney Theme Parks and America’s National Narratives takes a public history approach to situating the physical spaces of the Disney brand within memory and identity studies. For over 65 years, Disney’s theme parks have been important locations for the formation and negotiation of the collective memory of the American narrative. Disney’s success as one of America’s most prolific storytellers, its rise as a symbol of America itself, and its creation of theme parks that immerse visitors in three-dimensional versions of certain "American" values and historic myths have both echoed and shaped the way the American people see themselves. Like all versions of the American narrative, Disney’s vision serves to reassure us, affirm our shared values, and unite a diverse group of people under a distinctly American identity—or at least, it did. The book shows how the status Disney obtained led the public to use them both as touchstones of identity and as spaces to influence the American identity writ large. This volume also examines the following: • how Disney’s original cartoons and live-action entertainment offerings drew from American folk history and ideals • how their work during World War II cemented them as an American symbol at home and abroad • how the materialization of the American themes already espoused by the brand at their theme parks created a place where collective memory lives • how legitimization by presidents and other national figures gave the theme parks standing no other entertainment space has • how Disney has changed alongside the American people and continues to do so today. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of history, media, cultural studies, American studies and tourism.
Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films
Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films write by Kellie Deys. This book was released on 2021-11-04. Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films contributes to an essential, ongoing conversation about how power dynamics are questioned, reinforced, and disrupted in the stories Disney tells. Whether these films challenge or perpetuate traditional structures (or do both), their considerable influence warrants careful examination. This collection addresses the vast reach of the Disneyverse, contextualizing its films within larger conversations about power relations. The depictions of surveillance, racial segregation, othering, and ableism represent real issues that impact people and their lived experiences. Unfortunately, storytellers often oversimplify or mischaracterize complex matters on screen. To counter this, contributors investigate these unspoken and sometimes unintended meanings. By applying the lenses of various theoretical approaches, including ecofeminism, critiques of exceptionalism, and gender, queer, and disability studies, authors uncover underlying ideologies. These discussions help readers understand how Disney’s output both reflects and impacts contemporary cultural conditions.
Walt Disney
Walt Disney - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Walt Disney write by Margaux Fleury. This book was released on 2021. Walt Disney available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Disneyland and Culture
Disneyland and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disneyland and Culture write by Kathy Merlock Jackson. This book was released on 2011-08-31. Disneyland and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The success of Disneyland as the world's first permanent, commercially viable theme park sparked the creation of a number of other parks throughout the world, from Florida to Japan, France, and Hong Kong. But the impact of Disneyland is not confined to the theme park arena. These essays explore a far-reaching ideology. Among the topics are Disney's role in the creation of children's architecture; Frontierland as an allegorical map of the American West; the "cultural invasion of France" in Disneyland Paris; the politics of nostalgia; and "hyperurbanity" in the town of Celebration, Florida. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
