Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity - Tourism, Performance, Anxiety

Focusing primarily on Walt Disney World, in a time of unmatched cultural anxiety, the authors use their influential 'tourist as actor' framework to unpack the ways that Disney parks and their guests co-create performances of implicit Americanness through case studies on music, geography and ecology, sports, families, and politics.

List of contents

Introduction: Two Fourths of July at the Magic Kingdom
Chapter One: Voices of Liberty: Disney Parks' HarmonioUS and CacophonoUS Sonic Performances of American Musical Culture
Chapter Two: Labyrinths and Hyperspace: Escapist Geography and Absented Ecology in American Disney Parks
Chapter Three: "If You Can't Run Fast, Run Fabulous": The Evolution of Sporting at Disney and of American Conceptions of "Athlete"
Chapter Four: "Ohana Means Family?" Who Is Included in a Disney Family and Who Is Forgotten
Chapter Five: From Yippies to MAGA Provocateurs: Politicized Tourists Crash the Kingdom
Conclusion: Fist Fights and Friendship Bracelets: Disney Parks as Conflicted Commons

About the author

By Jennifer A. Kokai and Tom Robson

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer A Kokai, Jennifer A. Robson Kokai, Kokai Jennifer A., Tom Robson, Robson Tom
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.08.2024
• EAN: 9781666932393
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-239-3
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Studies in Disney and Culture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, United States of America, USA, Social and cultural anthropology, Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries