Performance and the Disney theme park experience : the tourist as actor / Jennifer A. Kokai, Tom Robson, editors.
2019
PN1590.A9 P47 2019
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Title
Performance and the Disney theme park experience : the tourist as actor / Jennifer A. Kokai, Tom Robson, editors.
ISBN
9783030293222 (electronic book)
303029322X (electronic book)
9783030293215
303029322X (electronic book)
9783030293215
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 292 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-29
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PN1590.A9 P47 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
790
Summary
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 collaborate with Disney Imagineers more than typically assumed. The books various sections explore nostalgia, utopia, progress, and fantasy; the ideology of park environments; the presence of human and audio-animatronic performers; and the inclusion of outsider identities within the parks. Jennifer A. Kokai is an Associate Professor and Theatre Program Coordinator at Weber State University. She is the author of Swim Pretty: Aquatic Spectacles and the Performance of Race, Gender, and Nature (SIU Press, 2017). Tom Robson is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Academic Programs in the Millikin University School of Theatre & Dance. He has published on topics ranging from historical stage technology to African American theatre to baseball movies.
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Kokai, Jennifer A., editor.
Robson, Tom, editor.
Robson, Tom, editor.
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