Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity
Regular price
€102.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Jennifer A. Kokai
A01=Tom Robson
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
American culture
Author_Jennifer A. Kokai
Author_Tom Robson
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=JBCC1
Category=JFCA
Category=JHMC
Category=KNSG
Category=KNSH
COP=United States
Delivery_Pre-order
Disney studies
Disneyland
Epcot
eq_bestseller
eq_business-finance-law
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Immersive theater
Language_English
Magic Kingdom
PA=Not yet available
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Forthcoming
softlaunch
Theme parks
Walt Disney World
Product details
- ISBN 9781666932393
- Weight: 585g
- Dimensions: 161 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 22 Aug 2024
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Writing in a time of heightened political anxiety–and when accusations of nationalism, authoritarianism, and proto-fascism have increasingly divided Americans into factions– the authors use their influential performance studies-based ‘tourist as actor’ framework to unpack the ways that Disney parks and their guests co-create performance of implicit Americanness in the 21st century. This book argues that the roles that guests choose to perform-- accepting, declining, negotiating, or overwriting scripts offered to them by the Disney theme park experience-- ultimately reveals much about the nature of the contemporary United States. Focusing primarily on Walt Disney World in Florida, and using case studies on music, geography and ecology, sports, families, and politics, these chapters illuminate the always complicated and often contradictory presentations and performances of America within Disney parks in the deeply contested twenty-first century.
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.
