Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience The Tourist as Actor 1st edition by Jennifer 303029322X 9783030293222

Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience The Tourist as Actor 1st edition by Jennifer Kokai – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030293222, 303029322X

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• ISBN 10: 03029322X
• ISBN 13: 9783030293222
• Author: Jennifer Kokai

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.

Table of contents:

Part I. Introduction

You’re in the Parade! Disney as Immersive Theatre and the Tourist as Actor

Part II. Time, Tomorrowland, and Fantasy

‘The Future Is Truly in the Past’: The Regressive Nostalgia of Tomorrowland

What’s Missing in Frontierland? American Indian Culture and Indexical Absence at Walt Disney World

Taming the Fairy Tale: Performing Affective Medievalism in Fantasyland

Part III. Environments as Ideologies

The Nemofication of Nature: Animals, Artificiality, and Affect at Disney World

Disney-Fying Dixie: Queering the ‘Laughing Place’ at Splash Mountain

Rising in the East: Disney Rehearses Chinese Consumers at a Glocalized Shanghai Disneyland

Part IV. Liveness and Audio-Animation

‘Have to See It, Yet Boring’: Disney’s Robot Dramas Revisited

The Search for a Great, Big, Beautiful Tomorrow: Performing Utopia with Non-Human Bodies in the Hall of Presidents

The Royal Theatre Presents: Echoes of Melodrama in the Magic Kingdom

Part V. Counter Identities

Disney’s Influence on the Modern Theme Park and the Codification of Colorblind Racism in the American Amusement Industry

It’s Good to Be Bad: Resistance, Rebellion, and Disney Villain Merchandise

The Park as Stage: Radical Re-Casting in Disneyland’s Social Clubs

Part VI. Afterword

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