Jennifer A Kokai, Tom Robson

Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity

Tourism, Performance, Collaboration

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing primarily on Walt Disney World, in a time of unmatched cultural anxiety, the authors use their influential 'tourist as actor' framework to unpack the ways that Disney parks and their guests co-create performances of implicit Americanness through case studies on music, geography and ecology, sports, families, and politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666932393
• ISBN-10: 1666932396
• Artikelnr.: 70829709

Autorenporträt

Jennifer A. Kokai is director of the School of Theatre and Dance and the Endowed Chair of the Holloway and the Brit at the University of South Florida. Tom Robson is assistant teaching professor in Purdue University's Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts program.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Two Fourths of July at the Magic Kingdom
Chapter One: Voices of Liberty: Disney Parks' HarmonioUS and CacophonoUS
Sonic Performances of American Musical Culture
Chapter Two: Labyrinths and Hyperspace: Escapist Geography and Absented
Ecology in American Disney Parks
Chapter Three: "If You Can't Run Fast, Run Fabulous": The Evolution of
Sporting at Disney and of American Conceptions of "Athlete"
Chapter Four: "Ohana Means Family?" Who Is Included in a Disney Family and
Who Is Forgotten
Chapter Five: From Yippies to MAGA Provocateurs: Politicized Tourists Crash
the Kingdom
Conclusion: Fist Fights and Friendship Bracelets: Disney Parks as
Conflicted Commons