Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience The Tourist as Actor /

Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience The Tourist as Actor /

This collection of essays explores the Disney theme parks as performance spaces-as immersive theatre spaces-and examines the agency of the tourist within those spaces. In contrast to much previous Disney scholarship, Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience asserts that park guests collabora...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kokai, Jennifer A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Robson, Tom (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Performing arts.
Theater.
Popular Culture.
Performing Arts.
Contemporary Theatre.
National/Regional Theatre and Performance.
Popular Culture .
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • 1. "Introduction" Co-Authored by Jennifer A. Kokai and Tom Robson Time, Tomorrowland, and Fantasy
  • 2. "The Future Is Truly in the Past: The Regressive Nostalgia of Tomorrowland" by Tom Robson
  • 3. "What's Missing in FrontierLand?: American Indian Culture and Indexical Absence at Walt Disney World" by Victoria Lantz
  • 4. "Staging Medieval Fantasy Through Tourism" by Christina Gutierrez-Dennehey Environments as Ideologies
  • 5. "The Nemofication of Nature: Animals, Artificiality, and Affect at Disney World" by Jennifer A. Kokai
  • 6. "Chinese Lions and Asian Beauties on Broadway Boulevard: Establishing a Satellite Broadway at Shanghai Disney" by Laura MacDonald
  • 7. "Disney-fying Dixie: Queering the Laughing Place at Splash Mountain" by Chase Bringardner Liveness and AudioAnimation
  • 8. "Dream Away: Disney's Robot Dramas Revisited" by Li Cornfeld
  • 9. "The Search for a Great, Big, Beautiful Tomorrow: Performing 'Utopia' with Non-Human Bodies in the Hall of Presidents" by Joseph D'Ambrosi
  • 10. "The Royal Theatre Presents: Echoes of Melodrama and Minstrelsy" by Patrice Amon This Counter Identities
  • 11. "Gated Amusement Parks, Disneyland, and the Codification of Colorblind Racism in the American Amusement Industry" by Jill Morris
  • 12. "Club Villain: Transgression and Empowerment of Disney Villain Culture in the Happiest Place on Earth" by Christen Mandracchia
  • 13. "The Park as Stage: Radical Consumer Performance" by Elizabeth Schiffler "Afterword" by Susan Bennett.

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