Full Description
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.
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Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Disneyland Concept
The Theme Park: The Art of Time and Space
Margaret J. King and J. G. O'Boyle
Synergystic Disney: New Directions for Mickey and Media in 1954-1955
Kathy Merlock Jackson
Animator as Architect: Disney's Role in the Creation of Children's Architecture
Mark I. West
Disneyland Attractions
Disneyland's Main Street, U.S.A., and Its Sources in Hollywood, U.S.A.
Robert Neuman
Frontierland as an Allegorical Map of the American West
Richard Francaviglia
The Dark Ride of Snow White: Narrative Strategies at Disneyland
Suzanne Rahn
Tom Sawyer Island: Mark Twain, Walt Disney, and the Literary Playground
Mark I. West
A Southern California Boyhood in the Simu- Southland Shadows of Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room
Craig Svonkin
Disneyland's Variations
Disneyland Paris: A Clash of Cultures
Christian Renaut
Hong Kong Disneyland: Feng Shui Inside the Magic Kingdom
Derham Groves
Hyperurbanity: Idealism, New Urbanism, and the Politics of Hyperreality in the Town of Celebration, Florida
Eric Detweiler
Disneyland's Influence
Theme Parks and Films—Play and Players
J. P. Telotte
Of Theme Parks and Television: Walt Disney, Rod Serling, and the Politics of Nostalgia
Douglas Brode
Vacation in Historyland
Katherine Howe
Autographs for Tots: The Marketing of Stars to Children
Kathy Merlock Jackson
Forget the Prozac, Give Me a Dose of Disney
Cathy Scibelli
The Disney Effect: Fifty Years After Theme Park Design
Margaret J. King
About the Contributors
Index
