From Virgin Land to Disney World - 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 From Virgin Land to Disney World write by . This book was released on 2016-08-22. From Virgin Land to Disney World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the publication in English in 1930 of Civilization and its Discontents and its thesis that instinct – and, ultimately: nature – had been and must be forever subordinated in order that civilization might thrive and endure, Freud contributed what some contemporaries saw to the central debate of his era – a debate which had long preoccupied both official American pundits and the American populace at large. At the beginning of the new Millennium, evidence abounds that an American debate still rages over the meaning of “nature,” the rightful weight of instinct, and the status of civilization. The Millennium itself has appeared in popular and official discourses as an appropriate marker of an age in which nature is close to the edge of radical extinction and has also become more and more unreliable as a paradigm for representation and debate. At the same time, the contemporary tailoring of nature to postmodern needs and expectations inevitably reveals the conceptual difficulty of any possible, simple opposition between nature and culture as if they were clearly distinguishable domains. If nature, then, can clearly be seen as a discursive concept, it may also be a timeless concept insofar that it has been shaped, created, and used at all times. Every epoch, age and era had “its own nature,” with myth, history and ideology as its dominant shaping forces. From the Frontier to Cyberia, nature has been suffering the “agony of the real,” resurfacing in discursive strategies and demonstrating a powerful impact on American society, culture and self-definition. The essays in this collection “speak critically of the natural” and examine the American debate in the many guises it has assumed over the last century within the context of major critical approaches, psychoanalytical concepts, and postmodern theorizing.
The Pocahontas Narrative and Disney's Interpretation
The Pocahontas Narrative and Disney's Interpretation - 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 The Pocahontas Narrative and Disney's Interpretation write by Rebecca Blum. This book was released on 2010-02. The Pocahontas Narrative and Disney's Interpretation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Heidelberg, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Ever since the colonization of the American continent, the Native Americans and their culture have concerned and often fascinated the Euro-American population. This is shown clearly by the facts that the Indian captivity narrative became the first truly popular genre of American literature and that by the beginning of the 19th century Indian American characters had become central characters in theatrical plays and on American stages throughout the country. After the invention of motion picture in 1895, North American Indian characters made an entrance into plenty of American movies. Unfortunately, in most cases it was not of great concern to the producers to depict the Native Indians in a realistic way, but rather to appeal to a broad audience, which was best to be achieved by using popular stereotypes, which had been around for 200 years. Up till today, stereotypical conceptions have dominated American motion picture, and only very few movies have tried to depict Native Americans in a more realistic and sensitive way. Keeping this history of American Indian movies in mind, it becomes apparent that Walt Disney's animated movie Pocahontas, released in 1995, stood in a long tradition of movies, of which only in the recent past a few had broken with the traditional stereotypes. The Disney Company, too, was severely criticized for reusing stereotypical conceptions in their depiction of Pocahontas and her tribe and for being historically inaccurate and insensitive to the Native Americans' past. The following paper will first give a brief summary of the historic Pocahontas' life, which is necessary in order to understand how far Disney kept or changed historic facts, and then depict the origins of the Pocahontas myth. Afterwards, the most important aspects of the movie will be described and a
Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience
Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience - 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 Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience write by Jennifer A. Kokai. This book was released on 2019-11-27. Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses Disney parks using performance theory. Few to no scholars have done this to date—an enormous oversight given the Disney parks’ similarities to immersive theatre, interpolation of guests, and dramaturgical construction of attractions. Most scholars and critics deny agency to the tourist in their engagement with the Disney theme park experience. The vast body of research and journalism on the Disney “Imagineers”—the designers and storytellers who construct the park experience—leads to the misconception that these exceptional artists puppeteer every aspect of the guest’s experience. Contrary to this assumption, Disney park guests find a range of possible reading strategies when they enter the space. Certainly Disney presents a primary reading, but generations of critical theory have established the variety of reading strategies that interpreters can employ to read against the text. This volume of twelve essays re-centers the park experience around its protagonist: the tourist.
Power and Paradise in Walt Disney's World
Power and Paradise in Walt Disney's World - 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 Power and Paradise in Walt Disney's World write by Cher Krause Knight. This book was released on 2019-08-19. Power and Paradise in Walt Disney's World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this fascinating analysis, Cher Krause Knight peels back the actual and contextual layers of Walt Disney's inspiration and vision for Disney World in central Florida, exploring the reasons why the resort has emerged as such a prominent sociocultural force. Knight investigates every detail, from the scale and design of the buildings to the sidewalk infrastructure to which items could and could not be sold in the shops, discussing how each was carefully configured to shape the experience of every visitor. Expertly weaving themes of pilgrimage, paradise, fantasy, and urbanism, she delves into the unexpected nuances and contradictions of this elaborately conceived playland of the imagination.
Phantasmagorical Culture: A Discussion of Disney as a Creator and a Cultural Phenomenon
Phantasmagorical Culture: A Discussion of Disney as a Creator and a Cultural Phenomenon - 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 Phantasmagorical Culture: A Discussion of Disney as a Creator and a Cultural Phenomenon write by Genevieve C. Goddard-Pritchett. This book was released on 2010-09-26. Phantasmagorical Culture: A Discussion of Disney as a Creator and a Cultural Phenomenon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Culture is informed by both the producers and consumers of that culture. However, in the case of the Walt Disney corporation, the producer is so powerful that it is not just informing culture but making a new culture all its own. Through playing on ideas of nostalgia, utopia, and the American dream, Disney has consturcted a world of fantasy that is becoming real in the eyes of consumers.
